{"id":44243,"date":"2018-07-17T11:12:10","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T15:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=44243"},"modified":"2018-07-13T17:08:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T21:08:29","slug":"always-another-country-memoir-exile-home-sisonke-msimang-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/always-another-country-memoir-exile-home-sisonke-msimang-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home by Sisonke Msimang [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Before personal and political events finally allowed her to go \u201chome\u201d to South Africa, Sisonke Msimang<\/a> spent her first 20-plus years in peripatetic exile. Born in Zambia, Msimang and her two younger sisters were \u201craised on a diet of communist propaganda and schooled in radical Africanist discourse, in the shadows of [their] father\u2019s hope and [their] mother\u2019s practicality.\u201d<\/p>\n

As \u201cfreedom fighters,\u201d Msimang\u2019s parents kept the family mobile, migrating to Kenya, Canada, back to Kenya, and Ethiopia, before arriving in South Africa after Nelson Mandela\u2019s release from prison, the ANC\u2019s rise to power, and the end of apartheid. Beyond a short visit in 1990, Msimang didn\u2019t live in South Africa until after college and a first-love-fueled rebellion that took her briefly to Oakland.<\/p>\n

Her country\u2019s freedom comes with confrontation, responsibility, disillusionment, violence, and, for her, the painful recognition of her own educated, elite privilege. Hauntingly raw (her sexual assault at age 7) and unblinkingly honest (her lingering hatred of a school bully), Msimang\u2019s memoir and first book recounts the intimate, inspiring, tumultuous journey of a woman \u201cpiecing [herself] back together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Nonfiction,” Booklist Online<\/em>, July 13, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2017 (South Africa), 2018 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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