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Mother to Mother. - Review - book reviews
American Visions, Feb, 2000 by Jennifer Hunt
Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona (Beacon Press. 1998. $ 20)--South African novelist Sindiwe Magona has based this brave and breathtaking book on the well-publicized tragedy of Amy Biehl, a white American Fulbright scholar who, in 1993, was stabbed to death in a township near Cape Town, South Africa. Biehl was registering voters for the country's first democratic elections when a riot began. Her murderers were a group of black teenagers.
Propelled by the voice of Mandisa, the mother of one of the young killers, Magona's narrative is structured in part as a private confession and in part as a letter written to the victim's mother. Eloquence is deepened by pathos as Mandisa describes the legacy that the apartheid system has bestowed upon her family and upon all black South Africans.
Theirs has been an existence violated by many and great injustices, extreme poverty, abuses both personal and institutional. Through Magona's skilled and compassionate authorship, Mandisa grapples both with the political aftermath and with a mother's unimaginable grief over the loss of two children: her own son and the young woman he has killed.
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