This thing called the future

By J. L. Powers

Subjects: South africa, fiction, Mothers and daughters, fiction, Sick, fiction, Medicine, fiction, Medical care, Zulu (African people), Blacks, fiction, 1000blackgirlbooks, Fiction, Children's fiction, Sick, Blacks, Zulu (african people), fiction, Healers, Mothers and daughters, Medical fiction

Description: Fourteen-year-old Khosi's mother wants her to get an education to break out of their South African shantytown, although she herself is wasting away from an untreated illness, while Khosi's grandmother, Gogo, seeks help from a traditional Zulu healer.