About the Book
An exciting young voice has emerged that reflects the idiosyncratic nature of our young democracy. Coconut is an extraordinary debut novel about growing up black in white suburbia, where the cost of fitting in can be your very identity. It is against this backdrop of potential loss that two extraordinary young women struggle to find themselves.
About the Author
Dr Kopano Matlwa Mabaso is a South African medical doctor and author, currently undertaking a D.Phil (PhD) in Population Health at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She is the founder of Transitions Foundations, an organisation that seeks to help South Africa�s youth transition from hopelessness to personal fulfillment through education. Kopano is a published fiction writer and the winner of the European Literary Award (2007) and joint winner of the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa (2010).
