A review by clairealex
Every Secret Thing: My Family, My Country by Gillian Slovo

4.0

I was finished before the book was. I was mostly interested in Ruth First and Joe Slovo, the parents, and the South African fight, so when Joe died, so did my interest. However, the book wasn't only about them; it was about the daughter's relation to her revolutionary parents and her coming to terms with having had to 'share' them with South African independence. It asks the question: who has the right to tell the story as she discusses it with her father. It is her story too, she insists. And so I continued reading and understood.