Rosewater by Tade Thompson6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The novel switches between various time frames, going back to his childhood in the 2030s and 2040s, as well as key events between then and now. The novel drops readers into the deep end, giving that variety of time frames, with interludes, to let readers sort out Kaaro as a character, as well as the 21st-century African world that he inhabits. And we slowly get to unfold what its future, and the future of Kaaro, too, will be. Over a variety of time frames, we piece together not only Kaaro’s story, but the story of Rosewater as well, Kaaro’s crucial role in the creation of the alien dome, and the community around it. This is, for better and worse, not always a smooth process for those chosen to be healed. ![]() ![]() Every so often the dome opens, and people who are near the dome when it happens can be cured of their ailments, diseases and problems. Rosewater, too, is much like that, a welter of humanity that lives around the alien domed structure known as Utopicity. From foiling Nigerian bank scams to finding people and things, Kaaro’s unusual psionic abilities, his connection to the so called xenosphere, are a mixed blessing to be sure, but they are also a way to make ends meet. In the mid-21st century, the year 2066 to be precise, Kaaro has a number of jobs and ways to make ends meet in the conglomeration of humanity known as Rosewater, located in Nigeria. ![]()
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