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Bookcover - How not to drown in a glass of water
Bookcover: How not to drown in a glass of water.

How not to drown in a glass of water by Angie Cruz

Over a round of yerba mate is where I’ve heard the best storytellers. In these circles of trust, tongues and tales become tangible and ideas are formed. Before the written word came to lay claim of colonial histories around the world, this is how my ancestors passed on our truths in conversations as such. And precisely in this manner is how Angie Cruz’s fourth novel How Not To Drown In a Glass of Water speaks to us.

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Bookcover: Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill
Bookcover: Daisy and Woolf by Michelle Cahill

Daisy and Woolf: Western stories are not the only stories that deserve to be told.

Daisy and Woolf: Western stories are not the only stories that deserve to be told. Cahill’s Daisy and Woolf is a postmodernist triumph because it demands truth telling even in works of the most established literary canon. Cahill achieves this through the ongoing motif of Mina’s mother. Her mother’s journey from Nairobi, England, Australia and her experiences of being an Anglo-Indian woman ground Mina as she imagines the fictionalised life of Daisy. “How much more difficult it would have been for Daisy Simmons to immigrate. I have to give Daisy a voice and a body.” By weaving and threading the life of Daisy together through thoughtful research to understand the socio-political context of the colonised India.

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