Question
The narrator descriptively weaves through this city from Selborne Avenue to its outer limits in the opening pages of Yvonne Vera’s novel The Stone Virgins. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this city that is the pseudonymous surname of an author who wrote a 2022 novel based on Animal Farm. That author also expanded the story “Hitting Budapest” into a novel in which Darling moves to Detroit.
ANSWER: Bulawayo, Zimbabwe [accept NoViolet Bulawayo] (The latter novel is We Need New Names.)
[10e] Nonceba returns to Bulawayo at the end of The Stone Virgins, years after being mutilated by one of these people named Sibaso. The memoir A Long Way Gone and the novel Beasts of No Nation both focus on children in this role.
ANSWER: soldier [accept fighter; accept military or militia]
[10h] Bulawayo is also the setting of Vera’s novel about the nurse Phephelaphi (“fuh-fuh-LA-fee”), titled for one of these creatures. In a novel titled for these creatures, a woman accidentally leaves a purse behind after slapping the powerful host of a dance party.
ANSWER: butterflies [or butterfly; accept mariposas; prompt on insects or Lepidoptera] (The latter novel is In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez.)
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Summary
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