Blood Orange (Used)

Blood Orange is the bitter-sweet memoir of a South African boyhood. We follow Gecko from his magical barefoot childhood in rural Natal, to his tragi-comic sexual and political awakening in high school in the Cape, and on towards that ever-darkening cloud on his horizon: conscription into the South African army. This follow-up to Karoo Boy is written in sparkling, effortless prose that deftly evokes the poignancy, absurdity, longing and fear of growing up white in the last decades of apartheid.