• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2022 December #1
  In Moeng's debut collection, each story showcases Batswana women in various stages of life navigating through cultural expectations, relationships, and family changes in the contemporary world. When a sick aunt moves in with her family, teenage Boikanyo finds herself avoiding her additional caretaking responsibilities to secretly enjoy fleeting youthful pleasures. Keletso grows up keeping an obedient and virtuous façade while struggling to accept the infidelity openly practiced and accepted by her own family members. Mrs. Kennekae struggles with loneliness and wanting to be loved as much as her husband loves his cattle herd when he leaves her for three weeks every winter. Three half sisters band together to care for their ailing mother and share childhood memories to cope with their changing familial responsibilities. Moeng paints beautiful vignettes of modern Botswana, exposing readers to communities and traditions of her home country while exploring dichotomies and relational tensions familiar to all readers. Her beautiful, lyrical prose and memorable characters make this collection a delight to read. Copyright 2022 Booklist Reviews.

Gothataone Moeng was born in Serowe, Botswana. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction, a Summer Workshop scholar at Tin House, and an Emerging Writer Fellow at A Public Space. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in American Short Fiction, One Story, Virginia Quarterly Review, A Public Space, Ploughshares and Oxford American. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi. She is currently at work on a novel.