Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night
Short stories exploring the lives and circumstances of African women in South Africa, all told with insight humor and vitality, this collection is a forceful document of injustices. In the opening story, a woman leaves her mud hut—and her five young children—to flee to the misty mountains beyond her village. She had been awake at night, in despair, considering where their next meal would come from. Her move is incomprehensible—the youngest child is still nursing. Then one comment gives...
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\ Quarterly Black ReviewSindiwe Magona's Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night rips away apartheid's shroud which hovers over lives, loves, and losses of South African Women with a ferocity that is both startling and enlightening...Magona has given us endearing characters and probing stories that are as authoritative as they are unforgettable.\ \
