Waste Not Your Tears

Wowed by the lights and prospects of city life, Loveness leaves her small mining town in search of a new life in Harare. She imagines herself falling for a hot-shot city man becoming his wife and spending her life in luxury while tending to her city children. The man she considers the love of her life is anything but a hot shot, and he is abusive and uncaring. To top all this off, he his HIV positive. Loveness is at a crossroads. She must consider her choices. Although, Waste Not Your Tears does not shy away from misfortune, it is also a novel of forgiveness and hope. Loveness is an unlikely heroine on a stage set during the crisis of HIV/AIDS in Zimbabwe. She lives, however, amongst us, and reading this sensitive and thoughtful novel provides insights into the challenges of making the wrong choices, but having the strength to move forward.

ISBN-13: 9781779223319

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: Weaver Press

Publication Date: 04-14-2018

Pages: 98

Product Dimensions: 8.25h x 5.50w x 0.25d

Age Range: 13 - 16 Years

Ndlovu, Vivienne: - Vivienne Ndlovu is an Irish Zimbabwean writer who works for SAFAIDS in Harare. Her fiction includes For want of a Totem, and the short stories 'Homecoming' in Writing Still (2003), 'Kurima' in Writing Now (2005), and 'Bare Bones' in Women Writing Zimbabwe (2008).