Going Down River Road - Paperback

by Meja Mwangi (Author)

Ben is a man on the move in seedy clubs and pubs in Nairobi's River Road. In one of those places, he meets a working girl and single mother named Wini and takes a liking to her. She moves in his single-room accommodation with her him little boy and the three become family. Then she suddenly runs off with her office boss leaving her son behind. Ben, a construction site labourer with meagre resources, is stuck with what to do with the boy.

Author Biography

MEJA MWANGI, the acclaimed author of "Going Down River Road", "The Cockroach Dance" and "Kill Me Quick", is an eclectic writer whose fascination with stories has created such varied works as "Bush Doctor", "Crossroads", "Carcase for Hounds", "Rafiki" and "Christmas Without Tusker".