The Fitzsimonses’ house, about the size of an English manor, was on the middle stretch of Avoca Avenue …
Fiction
A Season in Paradise
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I find him in Empangeni. My father lies on his back at the edge of the sugar-cane valley, one arm under his head, the other flung out, fingers plaiting scrub and yellow weed flowers.