He is curious and can't adjust to society as he knows it. Tshepo is an idealist, a sensitive dreamer, and has endured childhood trauma due to his father's criminal dealings. Reading about Tshepo's struggle with depression is particularly poignant in that light. The author took his own life in 2005 when he was thirty.
The language is plain, almost like direct speech, and reads like multiple diaries because each chapter is first person POV.Ī key part of the early sections of novel deal with Tshepo's struggle with mental illness and the horrible system that underlies "treatment".
The main character here is Tshepo but the narrative is made up of alternating points of view of his friends and people he meets along the way at the psychiatric institution, his home, and work. Set in Cape Town, this book is looks at post-apartheid society through the lens of sex, desire, and race. My review cannot begin to cover the complexity of this novel’s six-hundred pages.
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