If you want to make God laugh, Bianca Marais
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If you want to make God laugh, Bianca Marais
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eng
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fiction
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If you want to make God laugh
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Bianca Marais
Summary
In a squatter camp on the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa lives in desperate poverty, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS epidemic. Eight months pregnant, Zodwa carefully guards secrets that jeopardize her life. Across the country, wealthy socialite Ruth appears to have everything her heart desires, but it's what she can't have that leads to her breakdown. Meanwhile, in Zaire, a disgraced former nun, Delilah, grapples with a past that refuses to stay buried. When these personal crises send both middle-aged women back to their rural hometown to lick their wounds, the discovery of an abandoned newborn baby upends everything, challenging their lifelong beliefs about race, motherhood, and the power of the past. As the mystery surrounding the infant grows, the complicated lives of Zodwa, Ruth, and Delilah become inextricably linked. What follows is a mesmerizing look at family and identity that asks: How far will the human heart go to protect itself and the ones it loves?
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adult
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- Apartheid -- South Africa -- Fiction
- South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Sisters -- South Africa -- Fiction
- South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction
- Abandoned children -- South Africa -- Fiction
- Women -- South Africa -- Fiction
- South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976 -- Fiction
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- Subject8
- Apartheid -- South Africa -- Fiction
- South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Sisters -- South Africa -- Fiction
- South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction
- Abandoned children -- South Africa -- Fiction
- Women -- South Africa -- Fiction
- South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976 -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1