{"product_id":"pashena-shingi-mavima-9781955649070","title":"Pashena: The Dirt Field","description":"Pashena-literally \"the dirt field\"-is the coming-of-age tale of a group of neighborhood friends growing in the low-income township of Dangamvura, Mutare (Zimbabwe). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe story spans five years in the mid to late 1990s, a period during which most of the boys go from seven and eight to the precipice of their teen years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShingi has recently started school and is getting to meet the array of characters that are his neighborhood peers. Among them are Ta-his stuttering, reserved, and loyal next door neighbor, Strive and Wellington-hilarious and crass orphans from across the street who had grown up in the rural areas and were now being raised by their teenage sister, and Fungai and Tiberius-tennis-playing brothers who vacillate between yearning for belonging and bully tendencies. The group is, however, always in flux with cousins, classmates, tenants, and new neighbors coming and going. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile the friends are initially drawn together by the happenstance of neighborhood and a shared passion for soccer, they find themselves privy-from the vantage point of their beloved dirt soccer field, Pashena-to a community forever transformed by the insatiable AIDS scourge, an ominously dilapidating economy, and the irreparable loss of communal innocence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough it all, Pashena serves as an agent in which the boys learn to negotiate their love of self, each other, and community all while living in a world of which even their elders could ill make full sense.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Shingi Mavima\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1955649073\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781955649070\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e House Capacity Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.88lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.70d","brand":"Shingi Mavima","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44169991061759,"sku":"9781955649070","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a947b96f-2e17-4c79-bd91-a597cf5b1a11.jpg?v=1689656171","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pashena-shingi-mavima-9781955649070","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}