{"product_id":"we-inherit-the-fire-9780771019852","title":"We Inherit the Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eA gorgeously rendered, unflinching portrait of the fractured relationship between a mother and her daughter--set against the tumultuous end of apartheid in South Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is that photograph, of course. My mother: standing in front of a soldier, closer than anyone else would dare . . . \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn late-1980s South Africa, teenager Kelelo is forced to leave her mountain school for a newly desegregated school in town, where her identity as the daughter of celebrated freedom fighter Kewame \"Dolly\" Malaka makes her an instant curiosity. While her classmates see her as a symbol of progress, at home she struggles with a mother who is emotionally unreachable, still haunted by the violence and deprivation she endured as a political prisoner under apartheid. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKewame, now living in material comfort, hides a growing inner collapse as memories of prison life and the women who sustained her resurface, stirred by her grandmother's illness and the pressure of maintaining a façade of perfection. As mother and daughter navigate a shifting political landscape, \u003ci\u003eWe Inherit the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e interlaces their voices to reveal the unspoken wounds, buried histories, and complex inheritance of resilience, pain, and responsibility that bind and divide generations of Black South African women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKagiso Lesego Molope is an Indigenous novelist and playwright of the San people of Southern Africa. She is the author of four other novels: \u003ci\u003eDancing in the Dust, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was on the IBBY Honour List for 2006; \u003ci\u003eThe Mending Season\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSuch a Lonely, Lovely Road\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eThis Book Betrays My Brother\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award four times. She is the winner of the 2014 Percy FitzPatrick Award, the 2019 Ottawa Book Award for Fiction, and the 2019 inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award. Across Southern Africa and in parts of Europe, her works are read in schools in several languages. She wrote the play \u003ci\u003eMaya Angelou: Black Woman Rising, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was staged for five years at Oslo's Nordic Black Theatre. She lives on the unceded and unsurrendered Anishinaabe Algonquin territory.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51864335253778,"sku":"9780771019852","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6e318bba-4b26-457b-970f-0be1e91119b5.jpg?v=1767785659","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/we-inherit-the-fire-9780771019852","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}