Like sodium in water: A memoir of home and heartache

By (author): Hayden Eastwood. Hayden Eastwood's memoir is set against the atmosphere of nostalgia that lingers over Harare's remaining white community in post-independence Zimbabwe. The title draws on a chemistry metaphor for adolescence — sodium reacting violently with water before settling into calm — which Eastwood uses to frame his own turbulent coming-of-age and relationships during that period.