Field Notes 1: Interpretation kills the story.
Week 1 and 2 of research in Kigezi.
This is the first installment of Field Notes, where you join me real-time as I research the life of a woman in Kigezi three generations ago. The research is for (fingers crossed) a historical fiction novel.
“You must know this,” my language teacher says. It’s our first lesson. We’re seated on an open-air restaurant balcony and traffic shudders along Kaba…
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