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The Polygamist's author says women see themselves reflected in her Netflix hit

Zimbabwean novelist Sue Nyathi self-funded her debut novel and now asks who can afford to write at all.

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Zimbabwean novelist Sue Nyathi self-funded her debut novel and now asks who can afford to write at all. When Sue Nyathi sent her debut novel The Polygamist to publishers, "they thought there was no market for the book" about a married Zimbabwean man and the women he seduces, she says. It has now been adapted for Netflix and is in the top 10 of the platform's most streamed series in more than 60 countries, reaching number two in the United States. Hollywood actress Taraji P Henson said the series had her in a "chokehold" and she binge-watched all 22 episodes in a single day. It is not, Nyathi is careful to point out, a straightforward story about polygamy. The traditional practice of polygamy is not foreign to her. Her grandmother, the first woman his grandfather married, presided as matriarch over a farm where the wives lived together, and often helped choose the newcomers herself. "There was no infighting, because everyone knew their place," Nyathi says. "Everybody knows who's who in the zoo," Nyathi explains.

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From the storyZimbabwean novelist Sue Nyathi self-funded her debut novel and now asks who can afford to write at all.

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From the storyZimbabwean novelist Sue Nyathi self-funded her debut novel and now asks who can afford to write at all.

was no market for theCollocation

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From the storyWhen Sue Nyathi sent her debut novel The Polygamist to publishers, "they thought there was no market for the book" about a married Zimbabwean man and the women he seduces, she says.

married Zimbabwean man and theCollocation

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From the storyWhen Sue Nyathi sent her debut novel The Polygamist to publishers, "they thought there was no market for the book" about a married Zimbabwean man and the women he seduces, she says.

has now been adapted forCollocation

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From the storyIt has now been adapted for Netflix and is in the top 10 of the platform's most streamed series in more than 60 countries, reaching number two in the United States.

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