Blessings on the sheep dog
Subtitle: stories
By: by Gerda Saunders.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Southern Methodist University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Dallas, TX
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: South African Americans -- Fiction; United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction; South Africa -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "In "We'll Get to Now Later," a guilt-stricken white South African immigrant confronts his apartheid past when he meets a Zulu dancer traveling with a circus in the United States. In "Pig Day," an American teenager accidentally kills his best friend Nick, the son of a Romanian immigrant, and is co-opted by the bereaved father to build Nick's coffin.

In "A Sudden New City," Heila, a frail and mentally faltering white South African grandmother, drives a tractor into a black crowd as revenge for her husband's infidelity across the color line."--BOOK JACKET.