Where The Light Is
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Jace, middle aged, and successful as a financial broker and trader, finds himself at a turning point when his wife dies of breast cancer.
Recently retired, life seems to present him with challenges never before imagined – his aging mother, suffering from dementia requires attention and, without his wife by his side to stand in for him, he finds the double bind of loving his mother Cecille, and resenting her for her lack of parenting almost unbearable. Jace enters therapy in order to deal with these issues, and emotions long since buried in the distant memories of fighting in the Border war in Southern Africa find their way to the surface. In having to deal with his mother’s relocation into frail care he recalls his incarceration in boarding school – his memories of both happy and brutals times in the sixties are movingly portrayed throughout the book.
Where The Light Is is a compelling read – the journey of a man seeking meaning amidst his own personal anger and memories; this, along with his need for intimacy, seldom seen from a man’s point of view, is beautifully portrayed in a novel that will make you cry, and laugh out loud.
Michael Klerck
Michael Klerck was born on Robben Island, and grew up in Cape Town South Africa. He is the author of a number of textbooks for colleges, including one that has enjoyed one of the longest uninterrupted runs in South Africa.He published a children’s fantasy novel called The Key To Tantalis, and in 2001 he won the coveted Mondi Paper Magazine Award for work in Men’s Health magazine.He has just finished Lessons From The Sauna - a riotous romantic comedy that has people from both sides of the Atlantic crying with laughter. The comedic elements are beautifully counter-balanced with more moving accounts of his time in South Africa under apartheid.He now lives in White Rock south of Vancouver, British Columbia.
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