{"product_id":"9780771019852","title":"We Inherit the Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gorgeously rendered, unflinching portrait of the fractured relationship between a mother and her daughter—set against the tumultuous end of apartheid in South Africa.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere is that photograph, of course. My mother: standing in front of a soldier, closer than anyone else would dare . . .\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn late-1980s South Africa, teenager Kelelo is forced to leave her mountain school for a newly desegregated school in town, where her identity as the daughter of celebrated freedom fighter Kewame “Dolly” Malaka makes her an instant curiosity. While her classmates see her as a symbol of progress, at home she struggles with a mother who is emotionally unreachable, still haunted by the violence and deprivation she endured as a political prisoner under apartheid.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKewame, now living in material comfort, hides a growing inner collapse as memories of prison life and the women who sustained her resurface, stirred by her grandmother’s illness and the pressure of maintaining a façade of perfection. As mother and daughter navigate a shifting political landscape, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Inherit the Fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e interlaces their voices to reveal the unspoken wounds, buried histories, and complex inheritance of resilience, pain, and responsibility that bind and divide generations of Black South African women.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kagiso Lesego Molope","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover | 2026-01-13","offer_id":46910177378559,"sku":"9780771019852","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/9780771019852.jpg?v=1765393228","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780771019852","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}