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Exit Wounds
by Peter Godwin
Picador Africa
Remember Mukiwa and When a Crocodile Eats the Sun by Zimbabwean journalist, Peter Godwin? Well this is his latest. Exit Wounds: A Story of Love, Loss and Occasional Wars is a sort-of memoir that Godwin – who now lives in New York – wrote just after his mother died at the age of 90. At around that time he also lost his marriage (his wife Joanna Coles left him), his boys were growing up and his sense of homelessness seemed stronger than ever. Exit Wounds is an examination of family and of home. In beautiful prose, Godwin also writes about loss and about what makes it both magnificent and unbearable.
An army major once explained to him that when a bullet flies into your body, it harms you but when it flies out again from the other side, that’s when the real damage is done. “It’s the exit wound that kills you.”
“A memoir of love, loss and life, of rare candour and intimacy, utterly compelling , by a truly brilliant writer.”- Philippe Sands
“So funny, so elegant, so erudite, and as a portrait of an extraordinary mother and the family she made, it is masterful, moving and unforgettable”- Dave Eggers
