From the Publisher
"Ameera Patel’s first novel is edgy, witty, fresh, engaging, moving, memorable. This is an important new voice in the emerging movement of new South African fiction, taking us to places at once familiar and de-familiarized by the sensitivity of the writing. A vivid portrait of contemporary Johannesburg, wide-ranging, passionately engaged and acerbic. — Craig Higginson, novelist and playwright
"This not the Joburg you know. It is richer, kinder, funnier, and more exciting than our collective nostalgia for mid-1990s Madiba magic or today's pessimistic news headlines would suggest. In an accomplished and gut-punching debut, Ameera Patel populates her Johannesburg with a cast of characters who refuse to be what we have come to expect from post-Apartheid fiction. In doing this, Ameera has created something contemporary, exciting, dark, and hopeful in all the best ways." —Bontle Senne, author and literacy advocate