Books: Kaleidoscopes

In this book, Dr Adisa tells 10 linked short stories of women in Nigeria who develop HIV. Consciously or not, she is following a well-trodden path, as Boccaccio’s Decameron is a collection of tales told, over 10 days, by people in self-quarantine from the Bubonic plague in 14th-century Italy. More recently, The Women’s Decameron by Julia Voznesenskaya tells 10 linked tales of women in a …