So the Path Does Not Die - Softcover

Hollist, Pede

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9786014812 ISBN 13: 9789786014814

Publisher: Narrative Landscape Press, 2025

Synopsis

Long after Fina has left Sierra Leone for America, memories of a broken initiation still haunt her. She longs to return, to find her grandmother and right the path that has been set for young girls centuries past.

Her journey from the streets of Freetown to Washington echoes with the tensions, ambiguities, and fragmentation of the diaspora. Fina’s inner turmoil and feelings of ‘otherness’ persist as she travels further from home.

Ultimately, the broken path of her childhood brings Fina back to Sierra Leone, to a life she had never imagined for herself.

So the Path Does Not Die is a tender and gently observed novel exploring attitudes towards female circumcision from an exciting voice in African literature.

About this title

About the Author

Pede Hollist is a Professor of English at the University of Tampa and an award-winning fiction writer. His credits include So the Path Does Not Die, named the 2014 African Literature Association Creative Book of the Year; "Wherever Something Stands, Something Else Must Stand Beside It," named 2023 African Literature Association Best Short Story; "Foreign Aid," shortlisted for the 2013 Caine Prize and published in A Memory This Size and Other Stories; and "The Tale of the Three Water Carriers," longlisted for the 2015 Short Story Day competition and anthologized in Water: New Short Fiction from Africa. His other short stories have been published in Ake Review, Matatu, and The Price and Other Stories from Sierra Leone.

Edition details

• Publisher: Narrative Landscape Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9786014812
• ISBN 13: 9789786014814
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304