Darling lives in Paradise. She steals guavas from the trees with her friends in expensive neighbourhoods. She runs after the NGO lorries who come to deliver goods to the ramshackle village she lives in, and smiles for the cameras that the foreigners bring with them. Darling and her friends sing American songs, get into mischief, and dream about their futures.

But Paradise is a shanty town. A town Darling's family and others were forced to build when they were run out of their homes, bulldozed by Mugabe's paramilitary. And the futures that Darling and her friends dream of don't take place in Paradise. At least, not their Paradise. Paradise to them is America. Or Dubai. Somewhere they can be rich. Somewhere that is not Africa.

But is America really Paradise? Darling and her friends believe so. When Darling moves to Michigan to live with her aunt, she truly sees that the America she imagined is not the America she now lives in. And the Africa she comes from is not the Africa that American's see.

Now an immigrant in a country she dreamed of living in, Darling has to navigate the complexities of fitting in, but also remaining true to her heritage. Where does she belong, in this strange new world?

This was striking work and I’m looking forward to what follows