The Pots is an adult novel, centered around the coming of age story of sixteen-year-old Makhosi Mthethwa, whose typical village life in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa is disrupted by her mother's acquisition of a potter's wheel.
When her mother teaches herself how to use the wheel to make pots, Makhosi must help her fulfill her goal of selling them.
The two will have to face Makhosi's increasingly abusive father, who is threatened by his wife's potential independence.
Makhosi will also have to conf.
Black Earth Publishing The pots: (that mothers leave for their daughters), paperback/nonjabulo sangweni-arahill
