The subliminal theme of roots and family is what stood out
most for me in Mohale Mashigo’s book that would take any reader – South African
or not – on a life tour of what is the norm for most modern South Africans.
That being, despite the career focused city lives that many cultivate, where
and more specifically who you come
from will always be the cradle of your consciousness. The books protagonist,
Marubini, is an independent and successful city girl who starts to experience unexplained
symptoms that remind her of the spiritual journey that her father took years back in
the place of her childhood. After enduring seizures and frighteningly familiar voices of ghosts
not forgotten, she returns home for a wedding and there learns the truth of her symptoms from her charismatic grandmother, Finally, she is able to submit to the yearning
that her mind is forcing her to confront. Any reader could appreciate the ease of the inter-changeable traditional vs. modern scenes that are so uniquely South African in this book. Witty conversations and vivid flashbacks
steer a story fused with equal measures of culture, sadness and life.
*Book sponsored by Pan Macmillan
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