Current Read: Coconut

Kopano Matlwa’s debut novel about black people (women in this case) growing up in white suburbia, the book not only tackles racial issues, but also issues of identity and youth.

For the longest time after this book was first published back in 2007 it was on every avid reader’s lips. I carried the excitement, in part, because here was a young black woman doing something I aspired to and am still working at doing (penning a successful novel). I did not however read the book back then. I walked into my favourite Exclusive Books a while back and there sat one copy - as though placed there just for me. Needless to say, I am now reading and so far loving the book.