Girl on the edge : A memoir (Face2face books)

At the age of four, the author's father was arrested for high treason in South Africa. In this memoir, she describes how her parents were communists, how her dad went into hiding, his treason trial, her mother's arrest, her father's time in prison, the return of her parents, her suicide attempts and time at Friern Barnet Asylum in London, her experiences at art school and during the 60s, becoming a mother, and her return to South Africa in 1991. Distributed by African Books Collective. Annotation 2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)