"The Eternal Audience of One is laugh-out-loud funny with writing
that is sometimes so beautiful that it dances off the page-to a
millennial beat-in perfect tempo with its tales of migration, love,
loss, and friendship." -Sarah Ladipo Manyika, author of In
Dependence Reminiscent of Zadie Smith and Michael Chabon, this
"gorgeous, wildly funny, and, above all, profoundly moving and
humane" (Peter Orner, author of Am I Alone Here) coming-of-age tale
follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda
during the Civil War and make sense of his reality. Nobody ever
makes it to the start of a story, not even the people in it. The
most one can do is make some sort of start and then work toward
some kind of ending. One might as well start with Seraphin:
playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool,
Rwandan, stifled and living in Windhoek, Namibia. Soon he will
leave the confines of his family life for the cosmopolitan city of
Cape Town, in South Africa, where loyal friends, hormone-saturated
parties, adventurous conquests, and race controversies await. More
than that, his long-awaited final year in law school promises to
deliver a crucial puzzle piece of the Great Plan immigrant: a
degree from a prestigious university. But a year is more than the
sum of its parts, and en route to the future, the present must be
lived through and even the past must be survived. From one of
Africa's emerging literary voices comes a lyrical and piquant tale
of family, migration, friendship, war, identity, and race following
the intersecting lives of Seraphin and a host of eclectic
characters from pre- and post-1994 Rwanda, colonial and
post-independence Windhoek, Paris and Brussels in the 70s, Nairobi
public schools, and the racially charged streets of Cape Town.
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