Tsk-Tsk

Tsk-Tsk

EnglishPaperback / softback
Hackney, Suzan
Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
EAN: 9781868428724
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'I was made in Coffee Bay. Right there on the beach, in the sand.' From the opening lines, we are drawn in and engrossed by this startling memoir of a singular childhood. Suzan is adopted as a newborn in the late 1960s into a seemingly loving and welcoming family living in Pietermaritzburg. But Suzan is set on a collision course with, most particularly, her adoptive mother, and society, from her very beginning. Suzan's relationship with her mother is fraught with drama, which veers over into a level of emotional abuse and needless cruelty that is shocking. At the age of thirteen, Suzan is sent to a place of safety as a ward of the state, effectively 'orphaning' her. From there, she spirals out of control fighting to survive in a world of other neglected, abandoned and abused children. She becomes a 'runner', escaping at every opportunity from her various places of confinement, grabbing her schooling in snatches, living on the edges of a drug and prostitution underworld, finding love wherever she can. Suzans young life was the stuff of movies, but it is her writing, in a voice that is unforgettable and true, that transforms her memories into something magical rarely matched in South African literature. A new classic.
EAN 9781868428724
ISBN 1868428729
Binding Paperback / softback
Publisher Jonathan Ball Publishers SA
Publication date April 15, 2018
Pages 264
Language English
Dimensions 233 x 152
Country South Africa
Readership General
Authors Hackney, Suzan