Liongold: a stunning new memoir deals with issues of race relations, human rights and South African
Liongold is a poignant memoir of daily life in South Africa in South Africa during the height of the infamous apartheid regime - a true story about an ugly time in a beautiful place. Readers will be riveted by Bea Alden's faithful impressions
Online, September 11, 2009 (Newswire.com)
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"Liongold paints a vivid picture of a specific time and place... Alden bears witness, and in offering her clear-eyed memories, she also subtly explains how quickly and firmly injustice plants itself and comes to seem normal." Natalie Danford, author of Inheritance; co-editor, Best New American Voices
"In language rich with mood and atmosphere, delicately unfolding the intricate relationships of gender, class, ethnicity and race, Liongold tells the story of ... an entire way of life doomed, necessarily, to give way to immense change."-Susan Bernardin, co-author of Trading Gazes; Associate Professor of Native American and American Literature, State University of New York, Oneonta
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Tags: apartheid, Human Rights, Nelson Mandela, race relations, roles of women, segregation, social justice, South Africa
