Miriam's Song: A Memoir

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When the author and his family moved to America, his sister, Miriam, remained in South Africa. This tale, told in Miriam's voice, tells of a woman who came of age amid the violence and rebellion of the 1980s. She saw the destruction of the hates apartheid system and the birth of a new and democratic South Africa. Miriam emerges as both an innocent child drawn into the war against aparteid and a strong woman forever changed by the struggles, brutality and politics of the world around her.

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Ken Otterbourg The Winston-Salem Journal Inspirational and often affecting...there is an important message to this story.
Glamour This memoir of growing up in South Africa during apartheid is alternately evocative and wrenching, but always inspiring....[It] captures both the brutality and beauty of their childhood.

Author Bio

Mark Mathabane is the bestselling author of Kaffir Boy (Pengiun) and has been a White House Fellow during the Clinton Administration. He continues to write books and articles about education, race relations, social justice and human rights abuses around the world.