ASLEEP, AWAKE, ASLEEP, stories

143pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2019

"An abundance of vivid, intelligent, exciting pieces in which a woman tells herself the story of a life." Claire Robertson, author of Under Glass

"In a dazzling coil of interlinked tales Bekker mines the loaded seam between what we witness of the historical world amassing around us and what we internalise of that history into our remarkably unremarkable lives." Sarah Blackman, author of Hex

Jo-Ann Bekker was born in East London and lives in Knysna. She worked as a newspaper reporter for many years.