Small Circle of Beings

Damon Galgut's first collection of stories transports us to 1980s South Africa where politics begins at homeThe family-that small circle of beings where love should flourish-can be an arid and alienating territory where hatred and violence may ignite. The title novella is set in a house far out of town, at the end of a dust road that rises up into the mountains. The desperate bondage of family lif...