Born Among the Noise

Book One : King'ora

von Lucy Everline Muga Musungu

176 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Before alarm clocks, the king'ora called railway families awake across Nairobi's Eastlands.

For Lulu, growing up in Kaloleni meant nine children sharing two bedrooms, forty-four chapatis that could turn a household into playground royalty, television watched through a neighbour's window, and entire worlds built from wire, discarded tins and imagination. It meant cousins crowding around bowls of porridge, teachers whose names travelled across Eastlands, journeys to the village, and a community that could turn grief into food, music and collective care.

But childhood also carried secrets: a sister who disappeared, rules communicated by a parent's eyes, the shame surrounding a girl's changing body, and the danger of being seen where she was not supposed to be.

Set in Kenya during the 1970s and 1980s, Born Among the Noise is a funny, tender and unflinching coming-of-age story inspired by lived experience. It remembers a generation that possessed little but shared almost everything - and the friendships that remained family more than forty years later.

This is Book One of Lulu's story. It ends as primary school closes and a difficult new future begins.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798172922831
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 23.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published