Johannesburg-based author Ekow Duker has released an extract from his new novel, Dying in New York, on his website.
Dying in New York presents Lerato Malema’s journey from South Africa to New York, the city where she believes she will one day die. Read this harrowing extract in which we are introduced to Malema and discover what it is that separates her from her peers:
A long time ago, before I had breasts, sense or a husband, I knew one day I would die in New York. I must have been no more than ten years old and the jacaranda trees were about to burst into their lilac colored song. I’d never been to New York. Actually I’d never been out of our northern Johannesburg suburb, except for my monthly visits to Doctor Sydney Malema. You see I didn’t go to school, not to normal school anyway. Not anymore. My condition, as my father always described it, was extremely delicate. I remember my mother would nod her head in agreement and do her best to avoid looking at me whenever he said this. You see, I was the problem. Even the dirty mongrel in the backyard knew this. Her fur would stand on end like the bristles of a toilet brush and she would growl menacingly at me. I just didn’t belong.
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- Dying in New York by Ekow Duker
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EAN: 9781770103924
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