Happiness

Gaile Parin is the author of "Baking Cakes in Kigali". I selected it from various books, just because I liked its front cover . It shows a rough hand carrying a pink cupcake.
I expected to learn something about making cakes. When I finished reading it, my baking skill was not improved, but i reaped an unexpected harvest. The book was like a window through which I can observe the life of African people. To be precise, it is about the Rwandans or the Kigali.
I like to think that An Qi, the protagonist, is carrying the cupcake. She is an excellent cake master. Her works are always full of ingenuity. At the same time each story hidden in the cake unfolds one by one. I know why An Qi is the Tanzanian sad mother. And also know the reason why Didone orders the cake.
All of them are lovely in the novel. I still remember their names. Before visiting the Ruhengeri Park, Benny is a shy boy. Now An Qi says that his career will be with orangutans. Of course I still remember the black curry, the cassava as well as the khanga skirts.
An Qi said that you will live better everyday if you can bear extreme suffering. In my opinion, Africa is not just the AIDS or the poverty it is stalwart and buoyant.

Very well written!