Includingpoems, short stories, and personal essays, this collectionculled from a successful contest now in its fourth yearhonors the perspective of South African girls and women who have been the victims of abuse.Based onthe idea that creative writingaids thehealing process, these selections describe the struggle to survive, the difficulty of reconciling past and present lives, and the enduring nature of the human spirit. Told from a survivor's perspective, the tales paint a textured emotional picture of the highs and lows as victims struggle to put themselves together again, battle to find...
Includingpoems, short stories, and personal essays, this collectionculled from a successful contest now in its fourth yearhonors the perspective of So...