Waiting

A Ugandan author’s “unsettling and richly atmospheric” novel of a young African woman confronting the brutal end of Idi Amin’s dictatorship (Publishers Weekly).

Safe for years in their remote Ugandan village, thirteen—year—old Alinda and her family are suddenly faced with the terror of the self—proclaimed “Last King of Scotland” when troops of his use the local highway to escape anti—Amin Ugandan and Tanzanian allied forces.

With her pregnant mother on the verge of labor, her brother anxious ...