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Hum If You Don't Know the Words
Bianca Marais
Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy.
G.P. Putnam's Sons
July 2017
On Sale: July 11, 2017
432 pages
ISBN: 0399575065
EAN: 9780399575068
Kindle: B01MCV21N4
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Historical | Multicultural
Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for
Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her
parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but
worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural
village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles
to raise her children alone after her husband's death.
Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and
their meeting should never have occurred...until the
Soweto Uprising, in which a protest by black students
ignites racial conflict, alters the fault lines on which
their society is built, and shatters their worlds when
Robin’s parents are left dead and Beauty’s daughter goes
missing. After Robin is sent to live with her loving but
irresponsible aunt, Beauty is hired to care for Robin
while continuing the search for her daughter. In Beauty,
Robin finds the security and family that she craves, and
the two forge an inextricable bond through their deep
personal losses. But Robin knows that if Beauty finds her
daughter, Robin could lose her new caretaker forever, so
she makes a desperate decision with devastating
consequences. Her quest to make amends and find
redemption is a journey of self-discovery in which she
learns the harsh truths of the society that once promised
her protection. Told through Beauty and Robin's alternating perspectives,
the interwoven narratives create a rich and complex
tapestry of the emotions and tensions at the heart of
Apartheid-era South Africa. Hum If You Don’t Know the
Words is a beautifully rendered look at loss, racism, and
the creation of family.
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