"In a debut collection set in Botswana, a young widow, reluctant to discard her mourning clothes, expresses wonder at the outside world that continues despite her husband’s death a year prior. In another, a university student discovers her brother's affair, shattering her perception of him and their adopted city. But all these stories reveal how women, family, and community intersect—each written with compassion and a deft hand."—Oprah Daily

"A good short story is a bit of alchemy, showing us so much in so few pages. Gothataone Moeng’s debut collection does this over and over, each story surprising with its music, its warmth, its command of language. Moeng writes of contemporary Africa, and if the settings and customs feel unfamiliar to Western readers, there’s something universal and true in these tales that grapple with family, faith, and how we make our way in the world."—Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave The World Behind

“In Gothataone Moeng’s precise, delightfully detailed collection, Call and Response: Stories, we witness the challenges women of all ages face in a modernizing postcolonial Botswana where elements from the old life still remain…Though the stories are unlinked, all of these women and their separate complexities feel intricately connected…Bolstered by her stirring prose, Moeng’s stories pulsate with life and accumulate to build a full, rich world.”—The New York Times