02118cam a2200289 b 4500 3228 20250904124719.0 200103s2019 sa 000 0aeng 9781928420545 (paperback) MPL rda 3228 english 920 KOOP Koopman, Kelly-Eve author. Because I couldn't kill you : a memoir / Kelly-Eve Koopman. Auckland Park, South Africa : MF Books Joburg, 2019. xiii, 167 pages ; 24 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "In the shattered fantasy of rainbow-nation South Africa, there are many uncomfortable truths. Among these are family secrets - the legacies of traumas in the homes and bones of ordinary South African families. In this debut collection, feminist and Khoi San activist Kelly-Eve Koopman grapples with the complex beauty and brutality of the everyday as she struggles with her family legacy. She tries unsuccessfully to forget her father - a not-so-prominent journalist and anti-apartheid activist, desperately mentally ill and expertly emotionally abusive - who has recently disappeared, leaving behind a wake of difficult memories. Mesmerisingly, Koopman wades through the flotsam and jetsam of generations, among shipwrecks and sunken treasures, in an attempt at familial and collective healing. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, she faces up to herself as a brown, newly privileged "elder millennial", caught between middle-class aspirations and social justice ideals. An artist, a daughter, a queer woman in love, she is in pursuit of healing, while trying to lose those last 5 kilograms, to the great disappointment of her feminist self"--Back cover. Koopman, Kelly-Eve. Sexual minority women Family relationships South Africa Biography. Feminism South Africa. Biography lcgft Biographies. lcgft https://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026049 ddc BOOK 175 Naomi Ntsimane 175 Naomi Ntsimane 784674 784673 0 0 ddc 0 0 900 STANRL NTHOL GEN 2025-09-04 264.95 0 920 KOOP 3228200035956 2025-09-04 2025-09-04 BOOK