Andiah Kisia’s rural home is at Kidundu, Vihiga, where she sponsors a community library. She presently lives in Nairobi, taking a break, after working in several countries including Cameroon and Ghana.  Andiah recalls that her curiosity to reading was kindled by Wanjiru the Sacrifice and other children tales. She recalls Luanda Magere, the heroic legend. She was very young then and the curiosity fire to today today burns bright.  From little childhood stories, Andiah adds that at her youth she consumed a lot of political and radical stories, that she says again she did wean herself over and took to cynical ones, a taste that she now balances with. However Andiah today wants and desires nothing but neighborhood stories. Of small moments, small things, small relationships and incredible beauty of everyday life. What of a Nairobi story? What of a Buruburu or South C story? She asks.  Not so lucky to hear from the mouth of her grandparents while growing up, she but does recal...