Drunk by Jackson Biko
Larry broke my heart. But not as much as the little girl Malkia.
He just couldn’t stop. He kept going and going and going, and now it’s too late.
Or maybe Biko broke my heart. I have so many questions. Does he (Larry, not biko) wake up? What about mama Larry? She is such a sweet woman.
Biko, I just want to talk, that’s all.
Biko writes so beautifully. I said it before in my review of his other book Thursdays and I say it every Tuesday at 10 when I read his weekly blogs which I look forward to like a child does the dad to get back from work. Because it doesn’t matter that the mother is the one with the food in her tits, the dad is the favorite.
The objectivity in this review is obviously a little bruised, but I promise you’ll love the read.
See.. How beautiful is this... For Ajim♡.
You can get yourself a copy online from his website or get one at textbook centre (like I did, but save yourself from the shackles of leaving all your money to those guys if you can. The book variety is wild, and they are all so beautiful. It’s a trap to say the least).
Back to Biko, you don’t read a page from this book and look up, it absorbs you and for moments on end it’s like the world doesn’t even exist. You get a little drunk. A little too fed up of Larry and his messed up life, but thank God for Maggie. Maggie likes being bitten and slapped and tied to the bed post with one of Larry’s ties. She’s wild that one . This information might be of no relevance at all, so ignore it, go back to your lives, but it made me smile, hard. (You might get it when you read the book)
I love that it’s my first read of 2022. For an easy, witty, fiction read, and a peak into Larry’s dark life, I definitely recommend.
