Lessons in Husbandry

Lessons in Husbandry is a sad and funny celebration of what binds us and what sets us free in relationsships.
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Title: Lessons in Husbandry
Author: Shaida Kazie Ali
Genre: Novel
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Umuzi
Cape Town, South Africa 2012
ISBN 9781415201398 / ISBN 978-1-4152-0139-8
Softcover, 15 x 22 cm, 224 pages

Description:

Amal, this is the time of the year when I miss you most of all, as the days grow warmer and our birthdays draw closer. Today, that yearning feels new, as though it's a fresh sorrow. I know the reason for my sadness: it's the words skinny-dipping on the pages in front of me. Don't laugh, when I tell you this is my memoir. I know it sounds pretentious, and, no, in your absence I haven't become a celebrity. I'm not a sex-fiend sports star, or a recovering drug addict or even a woman who spent a few dark hours with a famous married man. The memoir-writing course was Rakel's idea. She's my partner in our business, Celestial Cupcakes, and also my friend. She's been through a lot in her seventy-something years, so it seems sensible that she'd want to write an autobiography. But as with most of her ventures, she insisted I join her, and, as usual, I didn't argue, living, as I did then, on the outskirts of my life. So that's why I'm here at my favourite coffee haunt in Cape Town, watching the sun spill over the pages as I read through my manuscript and wait for my husband to join me. I've decided that the easiest thing to do is to let him read what I've written. I don't know how he'll react, so I don't know how this story is going to end, and that is contributing to this melancholy I can't shake.