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PRINTED MTL
Author Marais, Bianca, 1976- author.

Title If you want to make god laugh / Bianca Marais.

Publisher New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2019]

Copies

LOCATION CALL NO. STATUS
 Camden PL Fiction  F Mar    AVAILABLE  
 Falmouth ML Fiction  F Marais    AVAILABLE  
 LewPL Fiction  F Marais,B    AVAILABLE  
 Rice PL Fiction  F Marais    AVAILABLE  
 South Portland Main Adult Fic  F    AVAILABLE  
Physical Description 435 pages : map ; 24 cm
Note "A novel"--Jacket.
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "On the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa Bambisa lives in desperate poverty in tiny metal shack in a squatter camp, under the shadowy threat of a civil war and a growing AIDS epidemic. Eight months pregnant with a child she does not want, Zodwa carefully guards secrets that could get her killed if discovered. Meanwhile, at a rural farm outside the city, estranged sisters Ruth and Delilah each face a personal crisis that sends them back to their childhood home to lick their wounds. They live together in an uneasy peace until the day that they find a newborn baby on their doorstep. Abandoned with only a blanket wrapped around him, the child will change everything for the sisters, upending what they believed about race, motherhood, and the power of the past. As the mystery surrounding the infant's discovery grows, Zodwa, Ruth, and Delilah become inextricably linked. What follows is a mesmerizing look at family, identity, and the lengths to which the human heart will go to protect itself and the ones it loves"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Apartheid -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Women -- South Africa -- Fiction.
Pregnant teenagers -- Fiction.
Abandoned children -- Fiction.
Sisters -- Fiction.
AIDS (Disease) -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
South Africa -- History -- 1961-1994 -- Fiction.
South Africa -- History -- Soweto Uprising, 1976 -- Fiction.
Religious fiction.
Historical fiction.