Ababalisi bamanje bathanda UColson Whitehead o UBrit Bennett bayaziqhenya ngokuqhakanjiswa kobuhlanga njengengxabano. Imayelana nokuchichima kokwazi lokho kokwehluka njengokuthile okungokwemvelo. Noma kunjalo kusuka ekuphathweni kokucabanga okuphambene. UMichael Jackson wayengafuni ukuba mnyama, sonke siyakucacisa lokho. Umbuzo ukuthola ukuthi yini eyenza umuntu azame ukuklebhula isikhumba sakhe, afune ukulangazelela ukushabalala kobunikazi njengesikhathi esedlule sokukhohlwa.
Ukuzilimaza ngokwakho yisona sigwebo esibi kunazo zonke ngoba nguyena ogwetshwa ukuzulazula ngaleso sisindo sokuphila okwazi ukucwilisa izinyawo zakhe emhlabathini kuze kube yilapho kungasebenzi noma kufakwa entanjeni. Inoveli enjengale yenza umfanekiso walesi sibhicongo sokucatshangwa ukuthi ungowobuhlanga obuphansi bese wenza sengathi uyaphunyuka kuso ngokuzikhohlwa. Imiphumela ayinakulindeleka njengoba ihlukaniswe. Kungaleso sizathu-ke indaba yamantombazane amabili isinyakazisa ngaphakathi njengomfanekiso omusha wobandlululo olusacashile ezinhlangothini zombili zesimo esifanayo sokuba ...
Izizukulwane ngezizukulwane, umphakathi wabansundu edolobheni laseMallard, eLouisiana, uzame ukukhanyisa isikhumba sabo ngokuvumela imishado exubile. Amawele angahlukaniseki uDesirée noStella Vignes, anombala weqhwa, amehlo ansundu nezinwele ezi-wavy, bayisibonelo esihle salokhu.
Behluke kakhulu futhi befana, banqume ukubaleka ndawonye edolobheni elincane, bekholelwa ukuthi nabo bangalibalekela igazi lakhe. Eminyakeni eyalandela nangaphambi kokubuka okumangazayo kwawo wonke umuntu, uDesireé uyabuya ehambisana nentombazane emnyama njengamalahle. Sekuyisikhathi eside engezwa kuStella, ngemuva kokuthi ethathe isinqumo sokunyamalala futhi ngokuqinisekile alahle imvelaphi yakhe ukuze aphile enye impilo njengowesifazane omhlophe.
Udunyiswe njengendlalifa efanelekile kaToni Morrison noJames Baldwin, uBrit Bennett ungenye yezambulo ezinhle zezincwadi zase-Afrika zaseMelika zangakamuva.
Manje usungathenga inoveli "Isigamu Esiphelayo", ebhalwe nguBrit Bennett, lapha:
