Soft in Flowers
By: Edited by Eratta Sibetta
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Amazon
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Amazon USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 873
ISBN-13: 9798714103056
Copyright date: 2021
First sentence: Maridbu examined the extent of her injuries. Going over again and again in her mind what her three marriage teachers had put her through in the forest that afternoon.
Description: Soft in Flowers is an unflinching, impactful portrayal of a child marriage and FGM experience seen from the child’s perspective and her young abusive husband, whose own life is marred by tragedy. Set in Zambia in the 70s, Maridbu’s life is turned upside down and caught up in unimaginable harrowing conflicts of tradition and culture, where murder, deceit and cultural obligations endanger the very fabric of a young woman’s life. A story that enhances and advocates that every human life’s struggles strengthens the human spirit and showcases the phenomenal power of helping those in desperate need. 

Every character is meticulously developed, daringly hopeful and uniquely life changing.

Soft in Flowers is a remarkable debut novel of epic proportions! “An amazing debut novel!” Sandra Poindexter, Author of Kepsium New Earth and The Psychiatrist.”
Notes: Soft in Flowers is also serialised into 7 Books