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Being Kari, by Qarnita Loxton

Being Kari, by Qarnita Loxton

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For Kari du Toit, Valentine's Day will never be the same again. When the love of her life reveals he's been unfaithful to her, life, romance and everything in-between come crashing down. Suddenly it seems as if her previous life - on far removed from Boulbergstrand's sandy beaches - is slowly catching up with her.

After ten years of silence, Kari receives a call from her estranged brother. At the foot of Devil's Peak, where neighbourly salaams and burkas are as ordinary as yellow polka-dot bikinis in Blouberg, she once again becomes Karima Essop, daughter of Amina and Farouk Essop. Daughter, sister, deserter.

For Kari, sometimes finding love means going back to where you came from.

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Being Kari

In "Being Kari," the author addresses weighty issues including politics, religion, divorce, infertility, abortion, marriage, family, and friendship without making light of them.
Kari was once known as Karima. Karima, who covered her head with a headscarf. Karima, who was once a devout Muslim. Karima, who was set to marry her high school sweetheart, had an abortion instead after becoming pregnant. Karima was outed and rejected by her horrified neighborhood. Karima fled her house in Cape Town's Walmer Estate after that.

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