Lara Pawson was for some years a journalist for the BBC and other media during the civil wars in Angola, and on the Ivory Coast. In this book, her experiences of societies in trauma, and her idealism for making the 'truth' known, are fragmented (as memory is always fragmented) and mixed with memory fragments of her childhood and of her relationships with the various people she encountered before, during and after the period of heightened awareness provided by war.
"Lara Pawson’s lucid, sudden and subtle memoir unpicks the spirals of memory, politics, violence, to trace the boundaries and crossing points of gender and race identity." – Joanna Walsh
>> Read Thomas's review.
>> An interview with the author.
>> We're featuring the publications of CB Editions, who published this book.
>> Lara Pawson and some other CB Editions authors read at Shakespeare and Company, Paris.
>> Pawson's book In the Name of the People, on Angola's 1977 forgotten massacre. She talks about this here.
>> She also has a blog.
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