Achieng Opiyo

Vendor Biography

High-level craftsmanship has been employed to tell the story of Ensley who is developed from the time that she just enters into marriage at the tender age of twenty-two. Her imagined “happily ever after” is soon destroyed when demands for a child start coming in from the mother-in-law. She realizes that marriage is not the bed of roses she had always dreamt of but rather an island of thorns, pain, and sorrow. However, she still finds hope in her family and friends who stay by her side always. As she still battles the issues in her marriage trying as much as possible not to reveal them to the public, her mother dies by suicide in very unclear circumstances. The story takes on a climax from there, everything does not seem to be what she thought it to be. Everybody in her life is not a coincidence but rather a deliberate effort either by those who care about her or those who are ready to move the mountains to see her destroyed. In her innocence, she believes she has not wronged anybody and therefore nobody should be trying to harm her. But that is as far as it goes. The story is action-packed from the beginning to the very last page, demanding a reading in one sitting. Achieng’ Opiyo, the Author, does not spare her readers time to think, she transports them into a world of colours as suggested by the title. The Colour of the Sun is a delicate series of notes, it is through uncovering these notes that true human nature is revealed to the reader. It is through the colour of the sun that Ensley sees freedom and realizes that love is not an end in itself but a beginning without end in sight, for her husband, Smith thought to be her soulmate has hidden intentions that take an unintended journey to the forest to be revealed. She discovers something else, her life has been marked by loneliness and infatuations coiled as love. The Colour of the Sun is a story of love, lust, tears, crime, and passion.