Bookclubfiction Stories

A sweeping, multi-generational epic that travels from the sacred shores of Lake Victoria to the electric pulse of digital Nairobi. When Nyar Alego, the spiritual guardian of her Luo village, walks into the lake in a final act of devotion, she leaves behind more than grief-she leaves her young daughter, Anyango, with a wound she cannot name. Haunted by the shame of her mother's mysterious disappearance, Anyango rejects the old songs and embraces the certainty of modernity. She marries a rising businessman whose industrial trawler brings sudden wealth-and unleashes an ecological unraveling that no prayer, and no machine, can undo. Her son, Oginga, grows up caught between these worlds. Fleeing to Nairobi, he becomes an engineer who trusts only logic. Yet even in the metallic hum of city life, the lake calls him back with an impossible sound-a structured, pulsing frequency that echoes the lullabies his grandmother once sang to calm storms. Now the destiny of their fractured lineage rests on Adhiambo, Oginga's brilliant, introverted daughter. A prodigy of code and sound, she discovers the hum hidden in her grandfather's data and transforms it into something breathtaking: a digital mandala of living rhythm. With the help of Jabali, a fierce young Maasai activist, she must do what no generation before her dared-not revive the past, but remix it. Blending ancestral resonance with modern technology, she sets out to compose a new symphony for the lake-one powerful enough to confront a mega-corporation, heal a broken ecosystem, and restore the covenant her great-grandmother once died to uphold. THE BEAT OF THE SILO is the story of a family bound by water, haunted by choice, and united by a rhythm older than memory-an unforgettable tale of loss, inheritance, and the courage to create a future worthy of the past.

Have you ever met your grandparents' friends or relatives? ❤️ Or have you ever been to an old age home? 🌻 Have you noticed how they treat you? ✨ There is a very warm feeling. We may not know them but, there is a sense of belonging. ❤️ No matter how grown-up you are they, treat you like a kid. 🌻 And somewhere, a part of you lets them. ✨ Griflers Town is about that feeling. ~ Nathan has arrived to Griflers Town at behest of his friend. At first he is not very fond of the slow-moving town, but over time, he starts to have that sense of belonging there. This novel is an ode to the communities all over the world, that helps the human race thrive. As Helen Keller famously said - "Alone we can do so little, together we can do much".