“Send us to school!”

The summer 2022 issue of the Brixton Review includes a review by Will Eaves of Elizabeth Hodgkin’s Letters from Isohe. In his review, “Send Us To School”, he writes: 

“Letters from Isohe is a frank and often stirring book: the strong element of reportage is intelligently close-quartered, so that small-scale triumphs and disappointments must stand in for the bigger problems of infrastructure in a contested state. At other times, the experience of reading it is unsettling, and immediate in a different, more personal way, as though one found oneself suddenly in receipt of bad news, holding a torn envelope, not knowing what to do… Most of these pieces were first published on the website of the Rift Valley Institute, and some editing has taken place, but they feel like real letters, which identify their recipients and compel them – us – to a distracted silence.”