#FamilyBookClub| JHB Studio~ Letepe Maisela , Management Consultant and Author ‘Sperm Donor’
Letepe Maisela is an author of three other books: 'Survival in the Corporate Jungle' (1998), 'The Empowered Native' (2005) and Thabo, the Computer and the Mouse' (2014). The latter is a children's story book.
It is a recently published fiction novel set in Soweto at the beginning of South Africa’s democratic era under the Presidency of Nelson Mandela. It narrates the trials and tribulations of a young married African couple, struggling to start a family .
The story takes a lot of twists and turns and reads at the fast pace of a roller coaster with its electrifying ups and downs captured in 424 pages. Journalist and author Bongani Madondo gives his tacit endorsement of the book: ‘This story is a searing portrait of a country in its formative yet pivotal period. The author aptly describes a moment in which individuals within a nation are morphed from ‘statistics’ to live fuller, messier, sexier, dumber and quite complex lives. He achieves this through fiction and not social history or some such, thus rendering the story of a people caught in a whirlwind of a country in transition. So interchangeable are the characters’ lives with ours: this is a realist fiction at its most taunting.’