{"id":892,"date":"2016-11-23T20:10:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T20:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/?p=892"},"modified":"2016-11-23T20:10:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T20:10:14","slug":"mother-to-mother-by-sindiwe-magona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/mother-to-mother-by-sindiwe-magona\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Book\u00a0Review <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By: Christen Rachow <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><span style=\"color: black;font-family: Tahoma;font-size: small\"><span dir=\"ltr\">On August 25, 1993, an American university student, Amy Biehl, was murdered in the South African township of Gugulethu. Five years later, South African writer Sindiwe Magona published her novel <i>Mother to Mother<\/i>, a deeply thought-provoking reflection on this historical moment of tragedy. On the one hand, Magona offers, first-and-foremost, the perspective of a mother trying to come to terms with knowing her beloved son participated in the mob mentality of that day, a mother to a son who was one of many hands stabbing blindly inside the chaos. And, on the other, this perspective of a struggling, tormented mother is written as a letter to another mother\u2014Amy Biehl\u2019s very own\u2014in an attempt to explain why her daughter did not come home. <i>Mother to Mother<\/i> is a heart-wrenching tale of intense imagery and emotion that goes straight into the matter of South Africa\u2019s past political violences with apartheid and offers up the question: Just how does a murderer <i>become<\/i> a murder? Magona\u2019s book offers no apology for this murder, but a look into society itself. For any American, this is a must-read novel, as it will entice a rethinking of the nation\u2019s entire justice system and the real, human truths of how social injustice creates society\u2019s very own killers.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Book\u00a0Review By: Christen Rachow On August 25, 1993, an American university student, Amy Biehl, was murdered in the South African township of Gugulethu. Five years later, South African writer Sindiwe Magona published her novel Mother to Mother, a deeply thought-provoking reflection on this historical moment of tragedy. On the one hand, Magona offers, first-and-foremost, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":241,"featured_media":814,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-book-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/241"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.umflint.edu\/qua\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}