Weeping Tomato

“The practice of storytelling is defined by and confined to the parameters established by any combination of several dynamics: space, time, theme, language, and genre among them. In Weeping Tomato, the author endeavours on a surreal sojourn that blends and moves between realms and phenomena that, at first glance, have no business being juxtaposed and paralleled — and triumphs in so doing. The story reads like Mutsvairo’s Feso -meets Black Panther-meets - Vera’s Nehanda –meets - Turnipseed’s A Love Noire; all without losing its definitive identity or becoming overwhelming. It is the story of forbidden love as much as it is one of the African renaissance; a story of the immigrant experience as it is of the hereafter; a story of selfishness, self-affirmation, and selflessness. Weeping Tomato is a brilliant story that will inevitably serve as a timestamp in the evolution of the Afropolitan literary tradition.”
 
Samantha Rumbidzai Vazhure.