Crooked Seeds by Jennings, Karen
Crooked Seeds by Jennings, Karen

Crooked Seeds

A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and daring novel...
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Author: Karen Jennings
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Crooked Seeds by Jennings, Karen

Crooked Seeds

$331.04
Crooked Seeds by Jennings, Karen

Crooked Seeds

$331.04
Author: Karen Jennings
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A woman in post-apartheid South Africa confronts her family's troubling past in this taut and daring novel about national trauma and collective guilt--from the Booker Prize-longlisted author of An Island.

Cape Town, 2028. The land cracks from a years-long drought, the nearby mountains threaten to burn, and the queue for the water trucks grows ever longer.

In her crumbling corner of a public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the South African police. Her family home, recently reclaimed by the government, has become the scene of a criminal investigation. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her land, after decades underground. Detectives pepper Deidre with questions: Was your brother a member of a pro-apartheid group in the 1990s? Is it true that he was building bombs as part of a terrorist plot?

Deidre doesn't know the answers to the detectives' questions. All she knows is that she was denied--repeatedly--the life she felt she deserved. Overshadowed by her brother, then left behind by her daughter after she emigrated, Deidre must watch over her aging mother and make do with government help and the fading generosity of her neighbors while the landscape around her grows more and more combustible. As alarming evidence from the investigation continues to surface, and detectives pressure her to share what she knows of her family's disturbing past, Deidre must finally face her own shattered memories so that something better might emerge for her and her country.

In exquisitely spare prose, Karen Jennings weaves a singularly powerful novel about post-apartheid South Africa. It is an unforgettable, propulsive story of fractured families, collective guilt, the ways we become trapped in prisons of our own making, and how we can begin to break free.

Author: Karen Jennings
Publisher: Hogarth Press
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
ISBN: 9780593597125


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/01/2023 pg. 4
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