Rinsing Mukami's Soul

An incisive novel laying bare society’s contradictory attitudes on gender, sex and redemption. Rinsing Mukami's Soul looks at revenge as a powerful tool for reclamation when young Mukami's carefully ordered life is cruelly thrust into scandal.

Njambi McGrath, award-winning author of Through the Leopard's Gaze, delivers this stunning debut novel examining the justification of rage as a response when a young Kenyan girl's mistakes in her first romantic encounter are ruthlessly held against her by a paternalistic society.

Mukami is a young scholarship student at a prestigious boarding school. She has a clear path ahead of her, but a deceptive smile that foreshadows her future misdoings. A school expulsion and an impossible pregnancy see her well-ordered life hurtling towards complete and utter disarray.

Facing disappointment from her family and finding that innocence is not a strong enough place from which to mount a defence, she declares revenge. This charged novel asks us to question why girls and women are often left to fight for justice from lonely places in societies that prefer them silenced.