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Book Review of Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
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Really great story. Mark Mathabane paints a vivid picture of what growing up in apartheid South Africa was like. He makes the reader feel the almost endless pain, desperation and hope that he clings to by a stretched thread.