…[an] immersive, exhilarating memoir …This memoir adds an vital voice to the genre of migrant literature, challenging false popular narratives that migration is optional, enduring and always results in a better life … The Dragons, the Giant, the Women also resists the pervasive, narrow-minded, gratuitously violent stereotypes of Africa that haunt Tutu during her school years in the West … Those starving right now for physical contact with loved ones outside their immediate homes will find special resonance in Tutu’s parents’ eventual reunion in Sierra Leone … Likewise, separations in this book are written with equal intimacy, and heartbreak … The book, jumping confidently across decades and continents and even narrative perspectives, closes with a section of such masterful danger and suspense that the reader is afraid for Moore’s life, although we know the ending…
