Book Review of To The Black Women We All Knew by Kholofelo Maenetsha
To the Black Women we all knew is a book brought to us by Kholofelo Maenetsha. This is an eulogy to the suffering of the black women at the hands of black men (sometimes literally fists).
The novel follows the lives of four friends (women) who are focusing on their marriages and love lives as they struggle through uncertain futures , past demons etc.
Kholofelo’s novel has a touch of reality because the women in the novel represent us. They define our strength, our weakness, our determination as well as our wariness.
They tell us throughout friendship it is not necessary for everyone to be in mutual agreement. They want to voice out their opinions about their friend's life while willfully forgetting about their own which is what most of us tend to do.As the title suggests these are the women we know.
Kholofelo Maenetsha has managed to entrap her audience in this book in such a way that you feel all the emotions along with the characters. This novel brings out a strong emotional impact. One line which means more than mere words is ‘Your strength is in you, you hold a key to your life’.
Overall the book is a compelling read and the characters stay with us throughout the book.
In the end I will leave you with words of Lazaro (one of my favorite characters in the book), “A person never looks like anything other than who they are. It is the observer who decides what he or she should be. And I believe that is seldom what that person is.”
Book Review by Pritika Bharat Mhatre, Roll no - 35, S.Y.B.Ed 2020 - 21.
Reference - Maenetsha, K. (2014). To the black women we all knew. ProQuest Ebook Central https://ebookcentral.proq
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