The Space Between the Space Between | 
so-soToo bad this novel went off the rails at the end because until then it was wonderfully wacky & entertaining. A young white South African giraffe-costumed condom-dispensing safer sex educator has a unique way of thinking about life and his own traumas, confounding and delighting his therapist, his best, black friend, and the reader. But some unproblematized xenophobic violence and a jarring tonal shift at the end pretty much spoiled everything.
OK, I've decided this crazy novel is plagiarizing my wackiest daydreams…
Sam is black and the main character/narrator Jethro is white; their crazy but warm friendship is the heart of this insane South African novel.
The 'aplogise' was in the original text - either a typo or perhaps an intentional error?
Another excerpt of another completely whacked conversation between our white South African protagonist, Jethro, and his therapist. What a madcap delight this book is so far…!
'Bakkie,' an Afrikaaner word, means pick-up truck in South Africa.
I am stoked to begin reading this South African novel tomorrow!
