Sindiwe Magona (South Africa) reads from her novel for young adults "Mother to Mother"

South Africa 1993: On the drive home in the township of Gugulethu, the 26-year-old student and outspoken opponent of Apartheid Amy Biehl is first racially insulted and then, after a failed attempt to escape, stoned and stabbed by a group of young black men. Sindiwe Magona gives us a fictionalized account of these events, shocked and motivated by the fact that the incident took place not far from her home. From the narrative perspective of the mothers of the victim and the perpetrators, she portrays the Apartheid era and the extreme violent tendencies in a society faced with daily injustice and degradation.

International Children's and Youth Literature

PRESENTER: Shelly Kupferberg SPEAKER: Kathleen Gallego Zapata

11th - 13th Grade