![]() The world of grownups and the picture of those troubled times through a child’s eye may seem less complicated, but it doesn’t feel naive, because it focuses on the truth that is common to all those who happen to live in difficult times. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some of those who live there will take a stand against the upcoming changes, some will just try to live their lives, but whichever path they take, their future and Lily’s with them, will never be the same. Lily tells us about her new pen friend, her grandmother, her headstrong mother, her aunt who once had polio, her uncle Gus-Seep whose real name was Giuseppe, her uncle Eroll, who worked on the passenger ships and one day didn’t come home, and all the other friends and naighbours, from the steaming, buzzing naighbourhood that contains Lily’s whole life, and whose days at the brink of apartheid laws are numberd. The story is told by an eleven year old girl, Lily, who (somewhat ironically) lives on Constitution Street, while entirely unconstitutional changes are about to take place in South Africa. ![]() It’s a loving, honest, and heartbreaking story of a community in one of Cape Town's predominantly colored suburbs. ![]()
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