MOTHER TO MOTHER

224pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (1998) 2013

A novel based on the death of American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl, killed by a group of young men in Guguletu, Cape Town, in August 1993. She died a few metres away from Sindiwe Magona's house, and one of the boys held responsible for the killing was Magona's neighbour's son. The novel takes the form of an epistle written by this boy's mother to Amy Biehl's mother.

"a tour de force" André Brink

Sindiwe Mangona is the author of two autobiographical books, To My Children's Children and Forced to Grow, two collections of short stories, Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night and Push-Push and Other Stories and the novels, Beauty's Gift and When the Village Sleeps.