Hear Lisa Fugard

Press release: Centre for the Book

Lisa Fugard will be reading from her new book, Skinner's Drift, at the Centre for the Book in Cape Town at lunchtime on June 3rd, 2005. Come along between 1 and 2 to hear her read. Refreshments will be provided. RSVP to Carl Taylor at the Writers Network if you would like to attend: 021-4222495, or email writers@nlsa.ac.za.

Skinner's Drift

A mesmerising account of a woman's journey into her own past.

There is a tie that runs deeper in Africa than it does anywhere else in the world - a connection to land, to roots, to home. After a decade of self-imposed exile, Eva van Rensburg returns to South Africa to see her father. She had vowed never to return to this place of haunted memories and broken hearts, but her father is dying. It is her duty. It is her home.

Her journey leads her back in time as she discovers her deceased mother's journals. As she delves into the depths of her own past, she discovers the corrosive secret that shattered her family and bled into the lives of all the inhabitants of Skinner's Drift, their farm on the banks of the untamed Limpopo River.

Immensely powerful and beautifully written, Skinner's Drift is a moving story of the human struggle to avoid accountability and the universal desire to find forgiveness. Lisa Fugard vividly portrays the violent reality of rural South Africa in a way that is intense and disturbing in equal measure.

Biography
Lisa Fugard, daughter of the celebrated playwright Athol Fugard, was born in 1961. She has produced travel and naturalist writing, and has written several pieces for the New York Times. She contributed to Getting Here From There: Selected Shorts, a Celebration of the Short Story. In 1997 she won the Robie Macauley Fellowship for short fiction. Lisa has written poetry and frequently takes part in readings of her own and others' work. Lisa is also an actress: in addition to playing the lead role in the stage rendering of Lyssie, she has acted in several of her father's plays, such as My Children! My Africa! She now lives in the US.



LitNet: 26 May 2005

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