
ISBN: 9781876756383
Paperback
173 Pages
Subjects:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Regional studies
Gender studies: women
"My name in Monei Ntuka and this is the story of my childhood in the village of Mochudi, in the then British Bechuanaland Protectorate, in the mid to late sixties. It is, of course, not the whole story of my youth, for didn't my grandmother Mma-Tseitsi, mother of my father, tell me many times, A tongue can talk until numb with fatigue, but it can never tell the whole story'? And didn't she gently admonish me saying, Child of my child, a good story teller knows when to stop, just as a dreamer knows when to wake up.' In any event, a look at self can never be a full stare; it has to be a series of glimpses."
Unity Dow is the first woman in Botswana to be appointed High Court judge. Dow has a long record as a human rights attorney, co-founding the Women and Law in Southern Africa Research Project and is a member of International Women's Rights Watch an advocacy organisation. In 1995 Dow challenged the government over the 1982 Citizenship Act, under which Botswana women married to foreigners could not pass on their nationality to their children, though Botswana men married to foreigners could. This led to passage of a legislation that gave women the right to pass on their nationality to their children.
"Juggling Truths is Unity Dow's third novel. A young girl tells the story of her growing up and her attempts to bridge the seemingly conflicting 'truths' she encounters. The book has been compared to Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird': there are many resonances, in the relationships of the very young and the very old, the power of superstition in children's imagination (Nei is very like Scout) and in the lushness of remembered landscape..." -- Juliette Hughes, Age.
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