Product Description
Song for Sarah: Lessons from My Mother
Authors: Jonathan Jansen, Naomi Jansen
Format: Hardcover
'It was under Sarah's roof that I learnt how to live, and where she would teach us how to die.' Jonathan Jansen's tribute to his mother is also a tribute to every mother who has raised a family and built a community in hard circumstances, and a direct answer to the crude stereotypes attached to Cape Flats mothers. He follows Sarah's life from the quiet town of Montagu, through apartheid's forced removals that put the family in a small house in the location and eventually on the Cape Flats — a young nurse raising five children.
With his usual delicacy, humour and frankness he shows how she handled her past, ran her home, made sense of the politics around her and passed on what mattered. His sister Naomi adds her own memories alongside his.
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