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This Book Betrays My Brother
- Narrated by: Jacqui Du Toit
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Winner of the Ottawa Book Award, English Fiction, 2019
Named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books of 2018
Named to the Globe 100, 2018
CBC Books, Top YA Pick for 2018
Named to Best Books for Kids and Teens, Fall 2018
Named to Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best Books, 2018
What does a teenage girl do when she sees her beloved older brother commit a horrific crime? Should she report to her parents, or should she keep quiet? Should she confront him? All her life, Naledi has been in awe of Basi, her charming and outgoing older brother. They’ve shared their childhood, with its jokes and secrets, the alliances and stories about the community. Having reached 13, she is preparing to go to the school dance. Then she sees Basi commit an act that violates everything she believes about him. How will she live her life now?
This coming-of-age novel brings together many social issues, peculiar not only to South Africa but elsewhere as well in the modern world: class and race, young love and physical desire, homosexuality. In beautiful, lyrical, and intimate prose, Molope shows the dilemmas facing a young woman as she attempts to find her place in a new, multiracial, and dynamic nation emerging into the world after more than a century of racist colonialism. A world now dominated by men.
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What the critics say
“This poignant novel presents us with a girl on the cusp of womanhood desperately trying to navigate the dissonant sociocultural imperatives placed on men and women in her society.” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review)
“The author examines the many systemic forces involved in maintaining a society that protects its chosen sons as it vilifies its daughters who choose to speak up...a timely and worthy choice for any public or school library.” (School Library Journal)
“Molope’s prose is exhilarating and she shines in the development of a character that you not only root for, but are desperate to defend.” (Quill & Quire, Editor’s Choice)