'I wrote it as a fugitive from what my life had become': Tsitsi Dangarembga on Nervous Conditions

The Booker-nominated writer on how growing up between England and Zimbabwe inspired her first novel - and why she started over after reading Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch

Nervous Conditions is a novel about yearning and wanting, about black girls - in this case Zimbabwean girls - desiring better for themselves and their loved ones. I wrote it as a fugitive. A fugitive from my first memories and of what my life had become.

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