About the Book
Jumila, Sadna and Goldilox Soo have big plans. They are sick to death of being the sitting ducks of history. They want change. But first they have a problem to deal with, Jumila’s problem, contained for now within several plastic bags, but threatening to leak out at any moment and send them all to prison. Weaving together old Mauritian myths, fairy stories and the absurdities of real life, this uplifting novel describes the struggle of three young women to transcend the daily grind and make a difference to their lives. Warm, moving and poignantly funny, it is a novel that ‘speaks truth to power’ and celebrates the friendship, strengh and courage of the invisible women on the edge of Mauritian society.
About the Author
Based in Mauritius, Lindsey Collen is an internationalist who believes that working people must unite, break their chains and free the world in the interests of everyone. Collen is a storyteller and a prolific writer. Her books weave together the lives of ordinary people in diverse struggles wanting to control and shape their own lives. The issues Collen discusses in her books are wide-ranging and topical and include climate change, food sovereignty, sugar-cane worker strikes, gender based violence amongst different classes of women, and women?s struggles to control of their own bodies.
Collen has been an activist in South Africa and Mauritius. Twice she?s won the Commonwealth Prize for Literature for Africa ? for the Rape of Sita (1994) and Boy (2004). Collen was born in South Africa and grew up in Transkei. She attended Wits University and was an anti-apartheid activist. She has lived in Mauritius for more than 40 years with her partner, fellow-activist, Ram Seegobin.
