The book of memory - Petina Gappah

The
story you have asked me to tell begins not with the ignominious
ugliness of Lloyd's death but on a long-ago day in April when the sun
seared my blistered face and I was nine years old and my father and
mother sold me to a strange man. I say my father and my mother, but
really it was just my mother.

Memory, the narrator of The Book of Memory,
is an albino woman languishing in Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in Harare,
Zimbabwe, where she has been convicted of murder. As part of her appeal
her lawyer insists that she write down what happened as she remembers it.
The death penalty is a mandatory sentence for murder, and Memory is,
both literally and metaphorically, writing for her life. As her story
unfolds, Memory reveals that she has been tried and convicted for the
murder of Lloyd Hendricks, her adopted father. But who was Lloyd
Hendricks? Why does Memory feel no remorse for his death? And did
everything happen exactly as she remembers?

Moving between the
townships of the poor and the suburbs of the rich, and between the past
and the present, Memory weaves a compelling tale of love, obsession, the
relentlessness of fate and the treachery of memory.