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    (By Alistair Mackay)

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    Author Alistair Mackay
    “Book Descriptions: After suffering a mental breakdown and losing his job at a New York advertising agency, a young man returns to Cape Town with his husband, Adrian. It's 2018 and Cape Town is about to run out of water. This isn't the homecoming they dreamed of, but the couple is determined to hold on to hope.

    They are going to start a family by adopting a child. Someone to love, as the world around them falls apart. Maybe even a chance to atone for the sins of this country. But as the adoption gets underway, the narrator is forced to confront the childhood spectres he has spent a lifetime avoiding. While his marriage and sense of self begin to unravel, his life becomes increasingly enmeshed with that of their bubbly and outspoken domestic worker, Sibs, and her quiet young daughter, Buhle. And the more he tries to fix things, the worse they get.

    Lies, violence and trauma endanger their hopes of a new beginning. And in the chaos of it all, he has to find his way back to Adrian, and to himself.

    "Fresh, unflinching, and propulsive." - S.J. Naudé
    "An important, if not essential, voice of contemporary South Africa." - C.A. Davids”

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