A review by nathansnook
Innards: Stories by Magogodi oaMphela Makhene
adventurous
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
4.0
Bold and brave in the terrain of community, hardships and heartships. There's landscape in the language here, vast and inventive in how language is a ways of relaying history that is found knotted, right and loose, with the people of Soweto.
These short stories rely on each other, require understanding and spatial awareness of the worlds and otherworldliness found in the ways we find homes within each other. For the reader, patience is required, but once kinship is made between reader and text, Makhene offers her home to us with so much color and vibrancy that fills you with wonder.
Ultimately, this is Makhene's love letter to her hometown, Soweto. It's wrought with so much faith and honesty that every word is meant to be there. As she is meant to be so proud to be from Soweto.
A fresh voice not to be missed.
These short stories rely on each other, require understanding and spatial awareness of the worlds and otherworldliness found in the ways we find homes within each other. For the reader, patience is required, but once kinship is made between reader and text, Makhene offers her home to us with so much color and vibrancy that fills you with wonder.
Ultimately, this is Makhene's love letter to her hometown, Soweto. It's wrought with so much faith and honesty that every word is meant to be there. As she is meant to be so proud to be from Soweto.
A fresh voice not to be missed.