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If You Keep Digging (Paperback)

Keletso Mopai

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If You Keep Digging is a moving collection of short stories, which will resonate with a South African audience. The selection of stories highlights marginalised identities and looks at the daily lives of people who may otherwise be forgotten or dismissed.

Monkeys is a skillful commentary on domestic violence, toxic masculinity, patriarchy (and how it is racialised), power dynamics between white and black men and how children come to “know” that they are white or black. Skinned, whose protagonist is a woman with albinism, is a powerful story about learning to accept that you deserve love when the world constantly tells you otherwise. In Fourteen the author deftly demonstrates the ability to play with concepts of time and reality. It is a compelling story about potential and how one can feel unfulfilled despite having hopes and ambitions.

The collection is also deeply concerned with covering the early post democracy years in South Africa. Each of the characters deals with questions around the “new” country. The book implores one to think about diverse topics and perspectives, difficult family relationships, abandonment, social and class issues, power dynamics at school and at work, mental illness, witchcraft, sexuality, domestic abuse and the ancestral realm, among other things.

General

Imprint: Blackbird Books
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: July 2019
Authors: Keletso Mopai
Dimensions: 212 x 135 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 978-1-928337-81-2
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
Books > Fiction > Special features > Short stories
Books > Local Author Showcase > Fiction - adults > Drama
LSN: 1-928337-81-3
Barcode: 9781928337812

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Sat, 11 Jan 2020 | Review by: Keitumetse M.

The best collection of short stories I've read in a while. Keletso writes such beautiful prose! All the stories are good unlike some short story collections I've read before.

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