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I love how they look and sound like they don't give a shit, even if they do. Their music sure is hypnotic, frightful and cheerful at the same time. After all, they are called "the Feeling of Love"! If you like Adam and the Madams, you may also like:. Waves of the New by Las Robertas. Other Man's Blues by Magic Trick. Phantom Letters by Annique Monet.
Post-Worthless, Annique Monet makes solo LP of magical, psychedelic pop songs that drift in and out of consciousness. Purchasable with gift card. They are 2 yet it seems they are a lot more. At least in their heads. Just some great music. Adam and the Madams. Their melodies kick ass, they all are great musicians and they manage to sound classic, yet so new at the same time. And some of them are my friends from the other side of the ocean. I love how they look and sound like they don't give a shit, even if they do.
Their music sure is hypnotic, frightful and cheerful at the same time. After all, they are called "the Feeling of Love"! If you like Adam and the Madams, you may also like:. Waves of the New by Las Robertas.
Other Man's Blues by Magic Trick. Phantom Letters by Annique Monet. I was like, "Wowza, someone out there is talking to me.
Zukiswa was engaging and available to the hordes of us in attendance. Born to a South African father and a Zimbabwean mother in Zambia, Zukiswa Wanner is the author of the novels The Madams (), Behind Every Successful Man (), Commonwealth and Herman Charles Bosman Award. Set in post apartheid South Africa, Zukiswa Wanner's debut novel, The Madams, is a fascinating story about three women, their families.
Talking about me doing this life thing!! I attended its launch at Maponya Mall. Zukiswa was engaging and available to the hordes of us in attendance. I loved the three friends and identified with their challenges.
I laughed with them. Got sloshed with them. Fast forward to New updated cover giving the book a fresher afro-centric 11 years ago I read this book. New updated cover giving the book a fresher afro-centric look.
Re-edited, general improvement overall. Found the story a bit superficial. Found the blow-by-blow account a bit tedious and long-winded. The three friends were too plasticky for me and the storyline didn't enthral me at all. I am older and wiser and generally couldn't care less about half the crap I used to worry about 12 years ago. If you are growing into yourself and need a good laugh and a good cry, the three women's adventures will sort you out. Zukiswa highlights the bigoted communities we come from and live within.
The misogynistic attitudes of the men in our lives. A pro-feminism black man is a myth. He exists within his female networks or on a podium. Put him with a group of men and watch him reveal who he is and this, is our daily struggle. We all know the three husbands. We've hosted them in our homes. We've been to their homes. The Madams is a stark reminder that 11 years later, nothing much has changed. From classist attitudes to reducing barren females to incubators. Siz was so much more than a baby-maker for Vuyo who was a total cad.
The Madams also highlights the strange and fraught relationships we have with the women who look after our babies and clean our homes. Who do we call them post-apartheid South Africa? How do we relate with and to them? I understood Thandi's employing Marita. Takes out the uncomfortableness out of that relationship. Such an ugly label. This baby mama was once your lover's love.
The Madams is both light and heavy. If you take out the frivolity you are left with a punchy narrative poking holes at the widening inequality gap, the simmering classism amongst us blacks, the underlying sexist behaviour and attitudes meted to us by these black men in our lives and these gender roles which are perpetually forced on us by our families The Madams makes a good social commentary on everything ugly and good in our communities.
From the township to the suburbs. The Madams is a conversation starter. Get a copy for you, your siblings, colleagues and friends. Grab a copy for your parents, aunts and uncles. Give a copy to your children.
View all 6 comments. Jan 29, Boitshepo rated it really liked it. When I first read this book ten years ago and I kept thinking, "Why did Thandi employ a white person to be her domestic worker? Why is she taking bread away from a black family just for show and to rattle her white friend and neighbour, Lauren, Lauren with her racist undertones?
Only now when I read it again did I kinda sorta forgive Thandi when she explained that, "Not only does getting a maid make me feel bourgeois, but it also makes me feel like I am exploiting When I first read this book ten years ago and I kept thinking, "Why did Thandi employ a white person to be her domestic worker? Only now when I read it again did I kinda sorta forgive Thandi when she explained that, "Not only does getting a maid make me feel bourgeois, but it also makes me feel like I am exploiting another individual It's not like it's at the office when a subordinate is older not that that does not come with challenges.
But you know we can go on and on about the challenges that come with employer-employee situations in the home. It's home, where one goes to kick off their shoes and throw their bra on the couch or wherever else. It's not that formal setting. Woke is a term that kept coming up in my head as I was reading, on just about every page.
It was so funny, because the author addresses pertinent issues of today, of BlackTwitter. It's a novel sure, but one gets so engrossed in Thandi's world that one forgets that they're listening to a fictitious protagonist, the way she could be chilling drinking wine in the same room. BEE, a beautiful father-daughter relationship, a love story to melt the hardest of hearts, domestic abuse, body image, dynamics of exploitation of live-in domestic workers, infidelity, and other issues that make it hard to take a break from this funny and intelligently thought-out story once one starts reading. Aug 03, Kari rated it it was ok Shelves: I found this book delightful!
I mean it is not much of a labor women's studies book if you are looking for something heavy in the labor area. This is why I liked this book because I like themes in my books being subtle. This book examines three South African women's lives, all madams, all women who work and employ maids. This book demonstrated what it means to live in a society which heavily values class and race, and it also shows that they are not the same thing. At times the book takes the re I found this book delightful!
At times the book takes the reader too far into the lives of the madams, and the reader is wondering how realistic it actually is. However, the depiction of the maids is wonderfully accurate The class issues in the book are portrayed by the madams; the reader experiences the race issues and conflicts of having a maid of a different race.