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n nTheres an entire generation of South African women who ought to read this book. - Sara-Jayne King, author of Killing Karolinen n nn nOugat is masterfully written - raw, unpretentious, unsettling. Shana Fife captures all the darkness from her body, psyche and life with fearless honesty and transparency. - Frazer Barry, award-winning theatre practitioner, writer and musiciann n nn nA bold, unapologetic memoir about abuse, coming-of-age, a woman owning her sexuality and seizing her power. Shana Fife has a unique and compelling voice, which she uses with great effect to break with gender and sexuality taboos. - Dr Barbara Boswell, author of Gracen n nn nBy the time Shana Fife is 25 she has two kids from different fathers. To the Coloured people she grew up around, she is a jintoe, a jezebel, jas, a woman with mileage on the pussy. She is alone, she has no job and, as she is constantly reminded by her community, she is pretty much worthless and unloveable. How did she become this woman, the epitome of everything she was conditioned to strive not to be?n n nn nUnsettlingly honest and brutally blunt, Ougat is Shana Fifes story of survival: of surviving the social conditioning of her Cape Flats upbringing, of surviving sexual violence and depression and of ultimately escaping a cycle of abuse.n n nn nA powerful, fresh and disarming new voice - Shanas writing is like nothing youve read before.n n nn n nn n nn n nn
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