Start of The Tail of the Blue Bird

I have always truly enjoyed the Mystery genre, and it might be a bit too early in our reading to say this, but I truly believe that The Tail of the Blue Bird is going to be a great mystery novel. Nii Parkes' descriptions of the cities, cars, bars, houses, and characters all truly hit home, bringing back memories of my time spent in Africa. I love his use of African language inside the book, but I'm not certain that everybody else is enjoying it as much as I am. The author's use of italics in Yao Poku's narratives are also quite mysterious. At this point, I'm not sure what to make of them at all.
Although the mystery of the novel is only in the form of gore laying on the floor a a villager's home, it still works truly well. It is a mystery in the truest sense of the word. His style of writing and his use of metaphors and similes, some relating to birds, have truly invigorated my thought process when it comes to mystery books. Without any real information I'm being forced to really think, and the part of the novel where the villagers don't smell anything but the police do is absolutely inspiring work! I still can't bare knowing that the answer is a couple hundred pages away from me.
I don't believe that there will be anything magical or supernatural when it comes to solving the mystery, at this point it doesn't even seem that way, but our class discussions have brought up the term magical surrealism so let's just wait and see.