Waiting To Inhale
Dineo Sebona (2020)
This book tells the story of Fernanda De Langa's traumatic last four months when she cared for her dying mother, when she had to face her past, her strained maternal relationship, and her mother’s mortality. The consistent reference and depiction of water in different forms throughout the book refers to the saying Aqua de vida (water of life). Water serves as a metaphor that symbolizes the deterioration in Fernanda's mother's condition as well as her own mental well-being
