October: A Novel

A South African academic returns to her homeland where she tries to connect her past and the present in this novel by the “extraordinary” (Toni Morrison) award-winning author of You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town

In October, acclaimed fiction writer Zoë Wicomb tells the story of Mercia Murray, a South African woman of color in the midst of a difficult homecoming. Abandoned by her partner in Scotland, where she has been living for twenty-six years, Mercia returns to South Africa to find her fami...