Book Review: Baking Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin

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"Bak­ing Cakes in Kigali" by Gaile Parkin is a fic­tional story is about a woman named Angel Tun­garaza, who her­self is Tan­zan­ian but is liv­ing in an Inter­na­tional apart­ment com­plex in Rwanda due to her husband's job. Angel and her hus­band are rais­ing their five grand­chil­dren after the lose of their chil­dren and are two peo­ple who are putting on a hope­ful front for their sake.

• 336 pages
• Pub­lisher: Bantam
• ISBN: 0385343442

My rat­ing for Bak­ing Cakes in Kigali — 5

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Thoughts:
Bak­ing Cakes in Kigali by Gaile Parkin (web­site) was charm­ing as well as easy to read. The sto­ries are inter­est­ing, the human­ity amaz­ing and, best of all, I really liked the char­ac­ter of Angel Tungaraza.

As many other peo­ple I know, the sum of my knowl­edge about Rwanda was the geno­cide a few years ago, I was expect­ing a dis­tress­ing, if not upset­ting novel and I got a tri­umphant and won­der­ful book. These every­day sto­ries are amaz­ing, even though they are told in a very relaxed man­ner (while order cakes for a cel­e­bra­tion) they don't sugar coat the hor­ri­ble real­ity that many peo­ple in Africa live day-to-day. Not only the geno­cide, but also poverty, AIDS and other issues make an appearance.

Yet, the hope­ful theme stays.

Syn­op­sis:
Angel bakes elab­o­rate cakes in her home, she has a steady cus­tomer base as well as a name around her neigh­bor­hood which brings peo­ple to her doorstep. Each chap­ter is has Angel bak­ing a spe­cial cake, the story around the cake and how it relates to the lit­tle sto­ries in the neighborhood.

We all know women like Angel, pil­lars of their com­mu­nity which every­one goes to with their prob­lems know­ing they'll be taken care of in a fair manner.

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Dis­claimer: I bor­rowed this book from the local library.

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