Waste Not Your Tears, by Vivienne Ndlovu

Wowed by the lights and prospects of city life, Loveness leaves her small mining town in search of a new life in Harare. She imagines herself falling for a hot-shot city man becoming his wife and spending her life in luxury while tending to her city children.

The man she considers the love of her life is anything but a hot shot, and he is abusive and uncaring. To top all of this off, he is HIV positive.