{"product_id":"9781868428724","title":"Tsk-Tsk: The story of a child at large","description":"\u003cp\u003eI was made in Coffee Bay. Right there on the beach, in the sand.' From the opening lines, we are drawn in and engrossed by this startling memoir of a singular childhood. Suzan is adopted as a newborn in the late 1960s into a seemingly loving and welcoming family living in Pietermaritzburg. But Suzan is set on a collision course with, most particularly, her adoptive mother, and society, from her very beginning. Suzan's relationship with her mother is fraught with drama, which veers over into a level of emotional abuse and needless cruelty that is shocking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the age of thirteen, Suzan is sent to a place of safety as a ward of the state, effectively 'orphaning' her. From there, she spirals out of control - fighting to survive in a world of other neglected, abandoned and abused children. She becomes a 'runner', escaping at every opportunity from her various places of confinement, grabbing her schooling in snatches, living on the edges of a drug and prostitution underworld, finding love wherever she can.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuzan's young life was the stuff of movies, but it is her writing, in a voice that is unforgettable and true, that transforms her memories into something magical rarely matched in South African literature. A new classic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-contributors\"\u003e\n  \u003cp class=\"contributor-item\"\u003e\n    \u003cspan class=\"contributor-role\"\u003eAuthor\u003c\/span\u003e\n    \u003ca href=\"\/search?q=Author+Suzan+Hackney\" class=\"contributor-link\"\u003eSuzan Hackney\u003c\/a\u003e\n  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Suzan Hackney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47375664939171,"sku":"9781868428724","price":240.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/7836\/3555\/files\/img_9781868428724_bb8ed527-b49a-45dc-81d0-ef37b8b41bb8.jpg?v=1776604460","url":"https:\/\/graffitibooks.co.za\/products\/9781868428724","provider":"Graffiti Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}