Petina Gappah on 'Persuasion'

Published: April 10, 2020, 11 a.m.

Author Petina Gappah recommends a book she explains is \u201cThe most African of Jane Austen\u2019s novels.\u201d Her reason why is a look at women in African today told through the eyes of two novelists: a Zimbabwean in 2020 and English woman in 1818.

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