Casting with a Fragile Thread
A Story of Sisters and Africa
A sister's death in Zambia sends the author back through a Rhodesian childhood she had put a continent between herself and.
Kann grew up white in colonial Rhodesia, left for America, and was called back by the news that her sister had died in a car accident in Zambia. The book moves between the return and the childhood: a mother who was bipolar and drinking, a father dead young, three sisters raised by a stepmother in a country that was ceasing to exist. The prose is lyric and controlled, and the landscape is never scenery.
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Nancy Goldstone
Her mother is mentally ill and her father dies while she was still quite young and she and her sisters live with their stepmother.
Interview · October 2013
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