As I can very well imagine; she had previously given an interview to one of the authors of a book, it may have been Janny Scott, in which she described how the house she lived in with the kenyan was filled with his relatives and their children. She said there were so many, sometimes she didn't know their names when she passed them in the corridor in the morning. It seems they came and went like ferals. Even Kezia sent her brood to be looked after by Ruth and her husband. What's one more? It was Malik who said he remembers playing with Barack when they were boys. Just where might that have been? It had to be either at Ruth's or in the village.
And are you trying to tell me that I cannot post comments here, or that I cannot write the same information more than once? It won't do you any good you know, I'm sick of being bullied. I don't plan to stop until I have finished.
Bravo!
“Even Kezia sent her brood to be looked after by Ruth and her husband.”
There were only two at that time. Auma was in boarding school the whole time, IIRC. So only one son, Malik, was in the home, IIRC.
I believe that Maraniss said that he was the only author that got any significant interview time with Ruth and she did not give him the description that you recount of their home being overrun, from what I remember reading that section of the book before I returned it.
The way Ruth described it, the first year it was party hearty, dancing and drinking almost every night.