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Skinner's Drift

by Lisa Fugard

Format:  Paperback
Published:  April 2007
Category:  General
Publisher:  Simon & Schuster
Pages:  304

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Lisa Fugard sets her debut novel in the alternately parched and drowned Limpopo Valley of South Africa where a dysfunctional Afrikaans farm family struggles under the crushing pressures of nature, race, drought, and violence. Martin van Rensburg is an alcoholic farmer with a stutter, his wife Lorraine is sensitive and cultured, ill-fitted for her harsh environs, and their daughter Eva grows up with a powerfully ambivalent awareness of the beauty and cruelties of her home. Meanwhile, the servant Ezekiel and his daughter Grace live in a nearby shed; Ezekiel is loyal to the van Rensburgs, but Grace continually represses her hidden rage. Fugard, the daughter of anti-apartheid playwright Athol Fugard, tells the story from multiple points of view, and captures each character's distinct perspective with marvelous ventriloquism. In the end, an adult Eva returns to the family farm to confront the dark secrets contained in her memory and in her mother's diaries, and to come to terms with the terrible violence that engulfed her parents. SKINNER'S DRIFT was selected as a New York Times Notable Book in 2006.

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