The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood by Glen Retief

The Jack Bank: A Memoir of a South African Childhood

Glen Retief

275 pages first pub 2011 (view editions)

nonfiction biography memoir challenging emotional reflective slow-paced
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This memoir is ideal for readers drawn to introspective, emotionally layered narratives that explore identity and societal tensions through the lens of personal and historical transformation.

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An extraordinary, literary memoir from a gay white South African, coming of age at the end of apartheid in the late 1970s. Glen Retief's childhood was at once recognizably ordinary--and brutally unusual. Raised in the middle of a game preserve whe...

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