Free (nook/Kindle/iTunes/DRM-free) Tombstones & Banana Trees [Xtian Ugandan Memoir]

[ATDrake]

Tombstones and Banana Trees: A True Story of Revolutionary Forgiveness by Medad Birungi & Craig Borlase is the former's inspirational coming-of-age memoir of growing up under very difficult circumstances in Uganda in the 1960s, escaping from poverty and violence towards education and acceptance, and of course also faith, free courtesy of Christian publisher David C. Cook.

I did a quick peek inside this, and while obviously there's a lot of religiosity going on in this, it also tells you a lot about modern Ugandan culture and tribal family bonds and daily life in the 60s and onwards, and also about the inner workings of the church in East Africa, so this may also be of interest to more secular readers who like to read about other cultures from a 1st-hand perspective.

Currently free @ B&N (also UK), Amazon (available to Canadians and in the UK), iTunes & Google Play (both available to Canadians), and also ChristianBook (DRM-Free ePub available to selected countries), and may also be free at other venues listed on the publisher's catalogue page, where a video book trailer featuring the author can be viewed.

And this has been the selected 3rd (non-repeat) free ebook thread of the day.

A little by default (though it did have to beat out the Amish novel which was written by an author from whom I'd previously read a freebie from that I'd enjoyed, but this is available in more stores and regions and DRM-free in some of them and has a sort of quasi-educational appeal ), but it's great to see some stuff focusing people from cultures that rarely get the spotlight in the genres we're typically offered, and this does look to have interesting bits on historical daily life and practices in Uganda, so .

Enjoy!

Description
Growing up with a violent father in the country of Uganda in the 1960s, Medad Birungi faced physical and emotional pain that few people can imagine––yet today he speaks of a revolutionary forgiveness we all can experience.

Once a boy who begged to die by the side of the road, once a teenager angry enough to kill, once a man broken and searching, today Medad is a testimony to God’s transforming power. Through his story of healing, Medad calls readers to find healing from their own emotional scars. As Medad’s remarkable journey shows, when people forgive each other, they are doing something truly radical. They are changing relationships, communities, countries. They are welcoming God into the corners of the human soul, where real revolution begins.