Living Loving and Lying Awake

Short Stories Exploring the Lives and Circumstances of African Women in South Africa, All Told With Insight Humor and Vitality, This Collection is a Forceful Document of Injustices. in the Opening Story, a Woman Leaves Her Mud Hut--And Her Five Young Children--To Flee to the Misty Mountains Beyond Her Village. She Had Been Awake at Night, in Despair, Considering Where Their Next Meal Would Come From. Her Move is Incomprehensible--The Youngest Child is Still Nursing. Then One Comment Gives Meaning to the Whole "To Be a Good Mother I Must Leave." Her Mother-In-Law Will Take Over, She Hopes. It is Only Later That We Learn, She Has Become Hired Help in a White Household to Earn Money to Support Her Family.This Collection of Superb Short Stories Was Voted One of Africa's Best 100 Books.