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When Love Danced

A coming-of-age- novel

Mukai Heather Jaravaza

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On a hot summer day in 1989, while standing outside Ricky’s Ice Cream Hut, seventeen-year-old Daniel meets Danai, the beautiful spirited daughter of Zimbabwe’s wealthiest lawyer. The eldest son of an ordinary Shona middle class family, Daniel concludes, “When I first saw you Danai I knew you were created to be mine.”

Set in the splendor and opulence of 1980’s post-independence, pre-depression Zimbabwe. Amid a country awakening to its own freedom and self-discovery. When Love Danced will take you on the journey of an exceptional coming-to-age story rooted in a nation struggling to find its own identity in a rapidly transforming world.