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Trauma and acceptance: read the story of a neglected Kenyan girl and the multiple issues that afflict Kenyan society.
Rough Silk is a coming-of-age story of a neglected girl championed only by a man who decides to claim and cherish her as his beloved daughter. It explores the mother-daughter dynamic and defies the assumptions of ease and acceptance. Set against the backdrop of Kenya, the story transports readers on a journey through trauma and acceptance, through neglect and abandonment and covers topics like the mortality rate in Africa, domestic violence, civil war, medical tourism and the plight of refugees, the HIV pandemic of the 1990s in Kenya and the orphans it left in its wake.