16. A TERRIBLE MATRIARCHY
“I am Dielieno and I am five years old. I wish I didn't have to stay at my Grandmother’s home when I was growing up. I missed Mom and Dad every single day and I miss my brothers. If I had been at home, I would have been playing with them and they would have pampered me to no end since I am the youngest. I wish I didn't stay with her! However, now I no longer hate Grandma after Mother explained to me about the kind of life she had when she was younger!”
The simple, fluid, seamless narrative Esterine Kire gives her readers in A Terrible Matriarchy is worth a second read. There's not a second of solitude as the story set in a real backdrop, takes the onus of giving the reader the vitalities of a Naga life and its culture.
But one thing is for sure that I wouldn't like to have a Grandmother that Lieno had to grow up with! I had a wonderful Grandmom as a little girl and she was the best when it came to telling me and my cousins some wonderful stories; mostly detective stories! And when we asked her to say some horror stories, she would say, “There are no ghosts! Fear is the only ghost in our lives!” Oh, how I loved her!
“I am Dielieno and I am five years old. I wish I didn't have to stay at my Grandmother’s home when I was growing up. I missed Mom and Dad every single day and I miss my brothers. If I had been at home, I would have been playing with them and they would have pampered me to no end since I am the youngest. I wish I didn't stay with her! However, now I no longer hate Grandma after Mother explained to me about the kind of life she had when she was younger!”
The simple, fluid, seamless narrative Esterine Kire gives her readers in A Terrible Matriarchy is worth a second read. There's not a second of solitude as the story set in a real backdrop, takes the onus of giving the reader the vitalities of a Naga life and its culture.
But one thing is for sure that I wouldn't like to have a Grandmother that Lieno had to grow up with! I had a wonderful Grandmom as a little girl and she was the best when it came to telling me and my cousins some wonderful stories; mostly detective stories! And when we asked her to say some horror stories, she would say, “There are no ghosts! Fear is the only ghost in our lives!” Oh, how I loved her!
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