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So hard to pick...- When I was fifteen I stopped waiting for the Second Coming. My mother has never stopped. She believes in love. There have been second comings and second marriages and second chances, but no saviours. I believe in the redeeming power of margheritas, especially two or three margheritas. - - There is a series of books that starts with Clan of the Cave Bear and ends up ensuring lifelong sexual dysfunction because only ten-year-olds can stand to read them. - - In real life, all he...
I took a chance on this novel mainly because I haven't read anything set in South Africa for quite some time, and I am so interested in the period - the 1980s and 1990s - in which it is set. I am also a sucker for a coming-of-age story, particularly when it features a young girl railing against what surrounds her, as Gardening at Night purports to do.The narrator of the piece, also named Diane Awerbuck, lives in a South African town named Kimberley, a former mining area, where 'the only tales ar...
Diane Awerbruck digs deep in this novel about growing up in the old mining town of Kimberly, South Africa. Although the novel is about a girl growing up, it is also about the way your hometown stays with you. No matter how hard you attempt to shake the dust off your feet, there comes a day when you have to reckon with where you are from. This book is about that. It's a beautiful story, reminiscent of Miriam Toews A Complicated Kindness.
It took me awhile to get past the first five pages due to the writing style and mid way it was overwhelming .I struggled until the end skimming on the pages getting the story only.Might have appreciated this kind of writing if it was a short story or one compact long poem .One of the books ,glad it's done with that touching a part of the world so different and harsh and go back to the second hand book shop.
It started off very good but then dwindled away.
Your past will find you.
