Cane Cutter

Flashes of life is a juxtaposition of grief and triumph and what exists at the intersection of both. On the precipice of cementing relationships, the author gets hit by sudden deaths of his brother, forcing him to reckon with both competing realities of life considering that yhe author is seen as an outcast in that family because he was not born or raised in that family. It also exposes the upheavals visited upon women who become widows from clan upon the death of their husbands in Africa, Kenya in the context of the bookl