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In this book about five women who form a writing circle in Cape Town, Maart gives us a friendship novel with a slant toward social justice.
These women - Isabel, Jazz, Carmen, Beauty, and Amina - are of differenct ethnicities and different social classes, but all have suffered violence at the hands of men. The book opens with a harrowing scene in which Isabel is raped just outside her suburban house. Her friends are inside waiting for her. When they hear a gunshot, they go outside to investigate ...more
These women - Isabel, Jazz, Carmen, Beauty, and Amina - are of differenct ethnicities and different social classes, but all have suffered violence at the hands of men. The book opens with a harrowing scene in which Isabel is raped just outside her suburban house. Her friends are inside waiting for her. When they hear a gunshot, they go outside to investigate ...more
May 21, 2008
Marie
marked it as to-read
Dec 05, 2008
Shelli
marked it as to-read
