Learn more about author Jo Robinson and her book ‘African Me & Satellite TV’. I highly recommend it! ~ Bette A. Stevens
I received a free copy of this ebook in an online giveaway. These are my honest views of this novel.
Jo Robinson’s novel, African Me and Satellite TV, is a most compelling and powerful novel, with a wide range of characters drawn with deep emotions, and a message some may find uncomfortable. Which is not necessarily a bad thing. Jo’s main character, Suzette Hertzog, is caring, artistic, somewhat emotional, and extremely inhibited. She has lived with pushing down her abhorrence of the way whites treat blacks in Zimbabwe ever since she saw “her father punch their driver in the face. Her 10-year-old heart had frozen in her chest, and over the next few days of listening to her parent’s vicious racist rants over his suspected, but unproven, theft of five litres of fuel, and watching him sobbing, denying it, begging them not to make him go, she finally decided to stop looking.”
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Bette A. Stevens, Maine Author 
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My favourite Jo Robinson book, by far. 🙂
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Thanks for the reblog. I found this to be the amazing book! I couldn’t put it down, and then, it took me several days to process my feelings and what I wanted to say about it. Jo has a wonderful depth to her characters and insight into why people act as they do. I hope you read it.
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Hi, mysm. Read it, I have–and reviewed it as well. Wanted to share this great book and its author once again and was delighted to find your post. Thanks for your post and for stopping to chat about Jo and her book with me. 🙂
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