October : a Novel
(2013)

Fiction

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PUBLISHED
[United States] : The New Press, 2013
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ISBN/ISSN
9781595589675 (electronic bk.) MWT12429953, 1595589678 (electronic bk.) 12429953
LANGUAGE
English
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A South African academic returns to her homeland in this novel by the award-winning author of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town. In October, Wicomb tells the story of Mercia Murray, a South African woman of color in the midst of a difficult homecoming. Abandoned by her partner in Scotland, where she has been living for twenty-six years, Mercia returns to South Africa to find her family overwhelmed by alcoholism and buried secrets. Poised between her new life in Scotland and her South African roots, Mercia recollects the past and assesses the present with a keen sense of irony. October is a stark and utterly compelling novel about the contemporary experience of a woman caught between cultures, adrift in middle age with her memories and an uncertain future

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