Crooked Seeds
by Karen jennings
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Pub Date Apr 16 2024 | Archive Date Mar 31 2024
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Description
From the Book longlisted author of An Island.
In her parched, crumbling corner of a Cape Town public housing complex, Deidre van Deventer receives a call from the police. The remains of several bodies have just been unearthed from her family’s former home, after decades underground. Detectives pepper her with questions about her brother, and his dealings with a pro-apartheid group in the 1990s with terrorist leanings.
Deirdre doesn’t know the answers to most of these questions. All she knows is that she was denied—repeatedly—the life she felt she deserved. But as alarming evidence from the investigation continues to surface, and detectives pressure her to share what she knows of her family’s disturbing past, Deidre must finally confront her own shattered memories so that something better might emerge from what remains. Crooked Seeds is a singularly powerful novel, in exquisitely spare prose, about the ways we become trapped in prisons of our own making.
Advance Praise
PRAISE FOR KAREN JENNINGS AND CROOKED SEEDS
‘This is an extraordinary novel. It is shattering, almost bearable, yet—so good, so clear—it is unputdownable.'—Roddy Doyle
‘The open-ended conclusion leaves readers with much to ponder about South Africa’s painful history and the stories Deirdre has told herself to survive. There are no easy answers in Jennings’s knotty narrative.’—Publishers Weekly
‘Deidre’s the kind of character who gets under your skin: furious, flawed and utterly unique. Jennings writes about broken people with unflinching honesty and deep compassion. A quietly devastating novel.'—Jan Carson, author of The Raptures
‘Karen Jennings is a modern master of the castaway novel. Her characters are often exiled from the world—physically or psychologically, sometimes both. Crooked Seeds’ Deidre and Trudy are unforgettable characters living on the margins of life. Together they make this an unsparing, yet profoundly beautiful novel.’—Chigozie Obioma, author of An Orchestra of Minorities
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781922790675 |
| PRICE | A$34.99 (AUD) |
| PAGES | 240 |
