All memoirs great and small
Feb 25, 2022
3 minutes
Razina Theba’s memoir, A HOME ON VORSTER STREET (Jonathan Ball, R260), opens the door on vibrant family and community life in Fordsburg, Johannesburg, in the 1980s and beyond. Theba, an attorney, has written a lively and insightful book that contains humour, but also the shadow of adolescent awareness of being expected not to fight what little life might hand her.
Here are the five words Theba uses to describe her experience of writing.
It can seem
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