Unity Dow's third novel, Juggling Truths portrays of the childhood of Monei Ntuka in the Botswanan village of Mochudi in Africa. 'Go to the past with me, so you can take the past to the future', asks her Nkoko. Nei takes us on an extraordinary journey through the many truths that shape her life; the truths of the colonisers and their churches and of her own people. We travel with her through dreams and share the wisdom of her grandmother as she lets the never-ending stories weave their own reality in face of a universe of conflicting truths.

'My grandmother thought perhaps, Mary, mother of Jesus, was a Fairy Godmother, seeing how she was a mother to a half-God, according to Father James.' So Cinderella shares the page with the young male initiates of Nei's village and the mysteries of the French envelope. Unity Dow recreates with telling insight and gentle humour a world where the truths of the missionaries and the witchdoctors jostle with those of the generations of women.

‘Frank, vibrant and ironic, the novel, given its setting in the 1990s, is disturbing to say the least’ – Veronica Sen, Canberra Times

‘Dow’s writing is elegant and cadenced – she has the kind of earthy immediacy that transports you into her world and keeps you there’ – Cameron Woodhead – The Age

‘Dow writes this world the way men and women in her country sing – with a zest fed by connection to the earth and to a shared past ... The High Court Judge is an astute diagnostician of the ills – social, biological and political – of her country, and of Africa in general. With this book she will help to change things.’ - Morag Fraser, The Age

‘To read Far and Beyon’ is to take a trip to Africa in the hands of a knowledgeable guide, who understands your world as well as knowing her own territory backwards’ - Keren Lavelle, Good Reading

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