Everything you need to understand or teach Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo.
In Glory, NoViolet Bulawayo crafts an expansive and complex portrait of a country at its breaking point. She uses Jidada—a fictional African country populated entirely by various farm animals—as an allegory for the recent history of Zimbabwe, her home country. Throughout the novel, Bulawayo explores themes of family, memory, race, gender, and the power of storytelling.