MY FATHER, MY MONSTER

256pp., illus., paperback, Revised Edition, Johannesburg, (2011) 2022

Police spokesman and former TV journalist McIntosh Polela's parents disappeared when he was five years old, leaving him and his sister to suffer years of abuse at the hands of their extended family. When as a teenager he discovers the truth behind his parents’ disappearance, he makes a gun from found objects, knowing that he must find and confront his father about his mother’s death.