β Cassandra White
π Fiction
π
2020
π English
β 204 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Another Woman's Daughter
β Scribed by Fiona Sussman
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group;Berkley
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 153 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
Set against the tumultuous background of apartheid South Africa, a powerful and moving debut about family, sacrifice, and discovering what it means to belong...
Celia Mphephu knows her place in the world. A black servant working in the white suburbs of 1960s Johannesburg, she's all too aware of her limitations. Nonetheless, she has found herself a comfortable corner: She has a job, can support her faraway family, and is raising her youngest child, Miriam.
But as racial tensions explode, Celia's world shifts. Her employers decide to flee the political turmoil and move to Englandβand they ask to adopt Miriam and take her with them. Devastated at the prospect of losing her only daughter, yet unable to deny her child a safer and more promising future, Celia agrees, forever defining both their futures.
As Celia fights against the shattering violence of her time, Miriam battles the quiet racism of England, struggling to find her place in a...
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