MY LIFE ON THE KITCHEN FLOOR

130pp., illus., paperback, No Place, 2019

Autobiography of Jelta Fredericks, raised in Shiloh, a village in the Eastern Cape, by an old black woman with special needs. Growing up in extreme poverty under apartheid, Jelta had no idea who her parents were, whether or not she was an orphan, and whether she should identify as black, coloured or white.

Self-published.