If I were given five minutes with my younger self—that little girl who cried every time we had to leave for another country—I would hold her tight and not say...
• A frank, fierce and insightful memoir of a young girl’s path to womanhood, via many homes • From her stateless childhood in Zambia and Kenya and her college years in North America, to her return to South Africa in the euphoric 1990s ...
She reflects candidly on present-day South Africa, but this is a book about family, romance and motherhood; of childhood jealousies and adult passions, and what it means to be born into a life scored by history.
An intimate story of exile and homecoming by the South African author whose TED Talk touched millions.
An intimate story of exile and homecoming by the South African author whose TED Talk touched millions.