"A tour de force."*
A powerful novel of sorrow and compassion in South Africa based on the real-life murder of Amy Biehl, a Fulbright scholar organizing democratic elections who was killed by a mob in a black township.
"The intense cry of sympathy and pain aroused by an all-too-actual tragedy. Sindiwe Magona reminds us of the implacably complex tangle of fury, loathing, innocence, and idealism that ruined two lives and cast a horrific shadow over both of their grieving families. Risky and honest, Mother to Mother raises a host of hard questions and, for all its compassion, resists consoling answers. I admire it immensely." -Rosellen Brown, author of Before and After
"With Mother to Mother Sindiwe Magona claims for herself a special place, bringing to her first novel the keen intelligence, the verve, the compassion and the stylistic self-assurance that marked her autobiographical writing in For My Children's Children and Forced to Grow, and the crisp sense of character that lent a hard gleam to the stories in Living, Loving and Lying Awake and Push-Push." -*André Brink
Author Bio: Sindiwe Magona is the author of two memoirs and two collections of short stories. She currently lives in New York, where she works at the U.N. She has contributed to The New York Times and has been anthologized in Under African Skies.