Tlotlo Tsamaase Livres

The story unfolds in an African city where a young woman grapples with a disintegrating sense of self as her skin color peels away and the people around her fade into invisibility. The impending destruction of a train, a significant site for burying the dead, adds to the sense of loss. Guided by a warning from her grandmother's dreamskin, the narrator faces a crumbling reality, exploring themes of identity, memory, and the impact of societal changes on personal existence.

WOMB CITY imagines a dark and deadly future Botswana, rich with culture and true folklore, which begs the question: how far must one go to destroy the structures of inequality upon which a society was founded? How far must a mother go to save the life of her child? Nelah seems to have it all: wealth, fame, a husband, and a child on the way. But in a body her husband controls via microchip and the tailspin of a loveless marriage, her hopes and dreams come to a devastating halt. A drug-fueled night of celebration ends in a hit-and-run. To dodge a sentencing in a society that favors men, Nelah and her side-piece, Janith Koshal, finish the victim off and bury the body.But the secret claws its way into Nelah's life from the grave. As her victim's vengeful ghost begins exacting a bloody revenge on everyone Nelah holds dear, she'll have to unravel her society's terrible secrets to stop those in power, and become a monster unlike any other to quench the ghost's violent thirst.