How is Tambu's village described in the novel, This Mournable Body?

Tambu’s village and her family homestead, or farm, there are shown to be poor, rural, and without much connection to the pockets of wealth concentrated in the city of Harare. Tambu’s family, and the other families in Tambu’s village, are subsistence farmers, barely capable of putting enough food on their table. As the novel unfolds, the reader sees that Tambu’s village is, for her, a place of fear and of repressed memory. Tambu, determined to become a success story and to transform herself into a wealthy urbanite, spends most of the novel trying to escape her family and to repress the physical object of her mother’s mealie meal. However, as the end of the novel suggests, Tambu is forced to return; there she discovers that she can never outrun her past and that, in fact, her family and village may be the best opportunity for success open to her.