{"product_id":"mother-land","title":"Mother \/ Land","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Apparition Of His Deceased Mother Appears To Law Professor, Salim Bardien, In New York On The Same Day That A Massive Student Protest Movement Erupts In Cape Town. She Comes To Foretell A Revelation, An Invisible Stain For Him To Clean. The News ItselfThat SalimS Birth Was The Product Of His MotherS Illicit Affair With A White Politician In 1960S South AfricaComes From A Newly Found HalfSister, Bertha. Yet More Disorder Follows When Bertha Reveals That Their Brother Is Dying Of Cancer, And That SalimS Bone Marrow May Be The Only Hope Of Saving Him.How Can One Secret AlterOr Even RedeemA Life? How Strong Are Familial Bonds Across Distances And Generations? And How Do The Struggles Of Another Era Echo Those Of Today? As Salim, Now A Husband And Father, Wrestles With These Questions In The Present, His Mother SawlighaS Forbidden Love Story Unfolds In The Past.Set Between New York And Cape TownAcross Eras Spanning ApartheidS Forced Removals And The Rise Of Black Lives MatterAnd Moving Through Lives, Deaths, And The Liminal Spaces Between, Mother\/Land Is The Story Of Family, And Of The World We Inherit From Those That Came Before Us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catalyst Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47958858105077,"sku":"DADAX1960803522","price":35.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/81BaPPeGXPL.jpg?v=1775579942","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/mother-land","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}