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…