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"'I remembered how, when I was a small child supposed to be asleep, my mother would slip into bed behind me and hold me. She would be trembling. She couldn't hide it no matter how young I was. 'Go to sleep, go to sleep,' she'd say, as if that would save us.' Brent Meersman's poignant memoir of a humble and eccentric upbringing in Cape Town, South Africa, in the 1970s and '80s reads as a stirring eulogy to his mother, and a vivid snapshot of the times. His adoring mother, a horse-loving artist, received only rudimentary treatment for her schizophrenia; while his father battled a vicious whirlpool of alcohol-fuelled depression. 'A Childhood Made Up' is beautifully observed and filled with wry humour. Delicate yet brutal, this story pays testament to the power of love and the quiet heroism of resilience."--Back cover.
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Children of schizophrenics, Biography, Children of the mentally ill, South African NovelistsPeople
Brent MeersmanPlaces
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A childhood made up: living with my mother's madness
2020, Tafelberg
in English
- First edition.
0624089398 9780624089391
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