Contributor(s): Author: Zoe Wicomb Afterword by: Carol Sicherman You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town is among the only works of fiction to explore the experience of Coloured citizens in apartheid-era South Africa, whose mixed heritage traps them, as Bharati Mukherjee wrote in the New York Times, in the racial crucible of their country.
Frieda Shenton, the daughter of Coloured parents in rural South Africa, is taught as a child to emulate.
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