Litnet

"Mzamo deftly and movingly sketches the precarious conditions of life; we see in the emotional torsions of this novel’s characters how life plays out for those who extract wealth but don’t benefit from it."

"In a field of recent South African novels that have been marked by a dire need for more judicious editing, the deftness of Davids’s plot is striking."

"This remarkable collection runs to 200 pages of poems by 40 black women, some of whom are familiar crowd-drawers – think Nikki Giovanni, Gabeba Baderoon, Warsan Shire – while others have smaller but no less committed audiences."

"One way to decolonise objects in a meaningful way is to let go of the Ozymandian idea that art has to last in one form, for all time, in order to have meaning or force. After fire, new things grow."