Sindiwe Magona's superb collection of short stories brings a full range
of South African women's experience brilliantly to light From the
village mother leaving her children to work; the maid in service to the
white medem; the black child raped and murdered, Living, Loving and
Lying Awake at Night is at once tragic, triumphant, humorous, and sharp,
but above all forcefully empowering.