- Middle-aged women, Alienation (Social psychology), Fiction, Fiction, women
Abandoned by her husband in Scotland, Mercia returns to her native South Africa only to find her family ravaged by alcoholism and secrets.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- Zoë Wicomb
- First published
- 2014
- Pages
- 239
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781595589620
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