South Africa: Memory Is Not to Be Trusted - a South African Memoir Traces the Search for a Family Secret

South Africa: Memory Is Not to Be Trusted - a South African Memoir Traces the Search for a Family Secret

Analysis - South African-born literary scholar Dennis Walder recently published an evocative life story called Amid the Alien Corn: A Son's Memoir. In it, he tracks how, even as a child, he became aware that his mother Ruth was withholding something of herself, and her past, from him. This disquiet comes to a head after her death.

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