When You Sing To The Fishes

By Okang'a Ooko

Guitarist Otis Dundos is back in Kisumu, the addictive and possessive lakeside town. Back in the 80s, he was the urban benga guitar legend. His commercially potent mix of hard benga and lofty rumba was loud with a culture surrounding it, and a cult-like following. It ignited an en8tire generation of music fans.

When he left Kisumu twenty years ago, it was a sudden unpleasant event. Everything ended in tragedy. He was twenty-nine years and at his peak. Today he still is the artsy man: the musician, the guitarist. People have died fast; the men and women who helped him make music... they have all died or wasted away. Is he about ready to follow suit? What is left? The past has unfulfilled dreams, good life, nice cars, easy money, expensive perfumes, glamorous women, living on the road, on stage and in the studios. And conniving bandmates, thieving promoters, and clever pirates..

The present is bearable but holds no promise: he is forty-seven. If he has to accept his forced retirement, he has to learn to be a local Kisumuan, not the famous name. He reminisces about the romantic encounters of the 70s. The future is uncertain. He is searching for sanity and happiness. Happiness? In Kisumu lives the woman whose unfulfilled love still dwells in his heart. But his mind is too bamboozled to even think.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1976879205
• ISBN13: 9781976879203
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.3" x 8.0"