Send Her Back and Other Stories

In Send Her Back and other stories,Munashe Kaseke offers an awfully intimatefresh telling of the immigrant black woman experience in the United Statesequally awash with a myriad of challenges as well as the joys of exploring a new world. With sumptuous candorher complicatedand often tangledfemale Zimbabwean protagonists navigate issues of identitymicroaggressionsand sexism in vibrant and indelible settingsand at times a tense US political climate. Yet againthese are not only stories of overcomingthey’re also marked by characters who’ve risen to the top of their professional fieldsseized the American dreamand who travel the world in glee. Kaseke peels back on the inner wranglings of characters caught between two worlds be it by stories of dating outside one’s culture and race or failing to assimilate upon returning home after spending time abroad. Uncanny. Hilarious. Witty. Gripping. Send Her Back and other stories dazzlesleaving you newly awakened to the world we live in.