Last Nervous Conditions Post

After finishing Nervous Conditions, I wasn't very satisfied in the way that it ended. I know that there is a sequel, but I felt as if the author made too many changes in the last chapter. It seems almost like the author was taking her time writing the story until chapter 10, where everything is quickly concluded. It does succeed however, in making me wonder what will happen next: Will Nyasha ever be herself again? Is the 'Englishness' really the problem, like Tambu's mother says? Why isn't 'Sacred Heart and what it represented a sunrise on [Tambu's] horizon'? How will Lucia be in the future? There are a lot of questions unanswered. 

 Nervous Conditions wasn't too complex as I thought it would be. Tsitsi Dangarembga's vocabulary is extensive, so I had to look up a lot of the words, but once I did, the words really did help create a vision of how the character is like in my mind because the words were so precise. I do not like long chapters for novels, because I am tempted to stop in the middle of some of them and they take up a long amount of time.  If it weren't for being a school book, I might have stopped reading it for this reason. I prefer short chapters, because they make me read more. But after evaluating it with the class, and after answering questions for each chapter, I understood it more and did not get as bored. I would have never caught how Miaguru was analogous to a mother bird or the time period that it is set in. Overall, I think NC was a pretty decent novel.