MULBERRY DREAMS

"With the lightest touch, think of embroidery, this journalist­ trained author - no word wasted - with the sensibility of a poet, coaxes us out of our dens, our mulberry trees, into the rich yet scarcely told culture of Bulawayo's "Coloured" community - God's orphans, as one of its celebrated citizens once described her people to me." John Eppel, author of Spoils of War and O Suburbia

Journalist Violette Sohaili Kee-Tui was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, where she still lives.