{"product_id":"9780771019852","title":"We Inherit the Fire","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine’s Most Anticipated Feminist Books of 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA gorgeously rendered, unflinching portrait of the fractured relationship between a mother and her daughter—set against the tumultuous end of apartheid in South Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is that photograph, of course. My mother: standing in front of a soldier, closer than anyone else would dare . . . \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn late-1980s South Africa, teenager Kelelo is forced to leave her mountain school for a newly desegregated school in town, where her identity as the daughter of celebrated freedom fighter Kewame “Dolly” Malaka makes her an instant curiosity. While her classmates see her as a symbol of progress, at home she struggles with a mother who is emotionally unreachable, still haunted by the violence and deprivation she endured as a political prisoner under apartheid.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKewame, now living in material comfort, hides a growing inner collapse as memories of prison life and the women who sustained her resurface, stirred by her grandmother’s illness and the pressure of maintaining a façade of perfection. As mother and daughter navigate a shifting political landscape, \u003ci\u003eWe Inherit the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e interlaces their voices to reveal the unspoken wounds, buried histories, and complex inheritance of resilience, pain, and responsibility that bind and divide generations of Black South African women.","brand":"Molope, Kagiso Lesego","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":49339069563102,"sku":"9780771019852","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0425\/4567\/6440\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a8d0c86d-972d-4678-b122-f4ba64166df7.jpg?v=1793413484","url":"https:\/\/paragraphbooks.com\/products\/9780771019852","provider":"Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}