The Unraveling Of Kato - Paperback

Some debts cannot be paid with money. They must be paid with blood, sweat, and the slow unraveling of a life.

Born during a furious storm in the village of Kyamaganda, Kato Isabirye enters the world as a second twin-small, quiet, and already marked by the ancestors. His father sees a burden. His mother sees a miracle. And a mysterious healer plants a seed of debt that will follow him for decades.

From the dusty red paths of his childhood to the brutal construction sites of Kampala, from a desperate cattle drive on the deadly grassland to a secret warehouse filled with smuggled weapons, Kato's journey is one of survival against impossible odds. Alongside his fearless brother Wasswa-his shadow and his shield-Kato must navigate a world where family can be a curse, love can be a battlefield, and the only way forward is to keep building, even when everything collapses.

The Unraveling of Kato is a tragicomic epic of modern Uganda-a story of debt and dignity, of brothers bound by blood and broken by circumstance, of a young man who learns that the strongest foundations are not made of concrete, but of community, forgiveness, and the stubborn courage to begin again.

For readers of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, and Imbolo Mbue, this novel will break your heart and piece it back together-one brick, one proverb, one hard-won truth at a time.