
The Child
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Narrated by:
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Alistair Mackay
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By:
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Alistair Mackay
After a mental breakdown costs him his job in New York, a young man returns to Cape Town with his husband, Adrian. It’s 2018. The drought is severe, and their homecoming is tinged with failure and reverse culture shock. But there is hope, too. They want to start a family by adopting a child.
As the adoption gets underway, the narrator is forced to confront events from his own childhood he would rather avoid, and question whether he is capable of love and fatherhood. His life becomes increasingly enmeshed with that of his house cleaner, Sibs, and her toddler, Buhle. His marriage begins to unravel and violence threatens to upend their new beginning. Can he help those he cares about while finding his own path to healing?
©2024 Alistair Mackay (P)2024 KwelaI have read and enjoyed the book previously in its printed form. It is a great exploration of the inner struggles of a privileged white South African trying to do the right things but taking several wrong-turns along the way. It gives a fascinating insight to the inner thoughts that motivate and justify choices that from the outside seem like self-sabotage. At the same time the book weaves in telling political insights and cultural vignettes about life in present-day South Africa, with all its complexities and contradictions. A great mix of the intensely personal, combined with a portrait of the broader society in which it is set.
Inner exploration confronts broken society
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