Lindiwe Dhlakama

Birth Place Lindiwe Dhlakama

This collection of recollections is about coming of age, about womanhood, and what it could mean to be a real man. It is about fatally mistaken identities and illogical conclusions, the majestic flora and fauna of a struggling African nation, about history and the dark passage that desperate perseverance can lead to. It is about the turmoil that comes with unanswered questions and the types of loss that one cannot mourn. It's about the pull of bright lights and man's desperation. It's about deoxyribonucleic acid mutation. It is about memory altering ailments, thieves of the mind and the complexity of sex. The lengths, or lack thereof, that parents will go to for their children, though somewhat odd. This collection is about life, death, love, witchcraft and a man who might be God.