Description
This memoir chronicles a remarkable childhood in South Africa, set against the backdrop of apartheid's end and the dawn of a new era. Born to a white father and a black mother, the author's very existence was a crime, forcing him into a hidden early life. As he navigates adolescence and young adulthood, he grapples with identity, poverty, and the complex relationship with his fiercely independent mother. These personal essays offer a hilarious, poignant, and unflinching look at resilience, love, and finding one's place in a world that tried to erase him.
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paperback
Doubleday Canada
Published Nov 15, 2016
277 pages
ISBN: 9780385689236
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First Published
2016
Language
eng
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