02649cam a2200469 i 4500 1289986746 OCoLC 20231128124619.0 220415t20222020nyu 000 f eng 2022016126 9780063264113 0063264110 9780063264120 0063264129 (OCoLC)1289986746 (OCoLC)1289920009 (OCoLC)1289940754 AJM pcc f-sa--- Manenzhe, Rešoketšwe, author. 14530 Scatterlings : a novel / Rešoketšwe Manenzhe. First HarperVia edition. New York, NY : HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2022. ©2020 279 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Originally published as Scatterlings in South Africa in 2020 by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd. In 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in tatters, which leads Alisa to commit a devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family's lives. 1927 South Africa. The Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), Married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in tatters. Abram, a South African winemaker, will tell you that things went wrong when his wife stopped loving him, when his children couldn't be citizens of their country of birth, and his country tried to put him in prison and steal his vote and estate. Alish will tell you that things went wrong much earlier than that: when her ancestors were brought to the Caribbean islands as slaves, and that after her birth parents died she was adopted by an Englishman who raised her in the United Kingdom. There's also Dido, their troubled eldest daughter; an angry man; and a woman who kept a secret she shouldn't have. -- adapted from Goodreads info Interracial marriage Fiction. 14531 Interracial marriage Law and legislation Fiction. 14532 South Africans Fiction. 14533 South Africa Fiction. 14534 Historical fiction. 129 Fictional Work 10412 Historical fiction. lcgft 129 Novels. lcgft 50 Romans. rvmgf 10426 .b17773842x ddc BOOK 29077 29077 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2023-11-28 26.99 0 MANE 64582 2023-11-28 2023-11-28 BOOK 1