Zebra Crossing

I really liked Chipo's voice in this book. She was an easy protagonist to follow and I was interested in where she would end up after struggling to survive in South Africa. The backdrop of the xenophobia that surrounded the 2010 World Cup was frightening - Vandermerwe did such a great job painting a story until the last quarter of the book where it kind of fell apart. There was such a struggle - against xenophobia, homophobia, albino-phobia, and how each character dealt with and perpetrated these different hatreds - and then it just ended. I wasn't hoping for or expecting a happy ending, or even a wrap-up, but I was hoping for a better exploration of these themes.