Memory is not to be trusted: a South African memoir traces the search for a family secret
The Conversation | 15.03.2026 15:12
South African-born literary scholar Dennis Walder recently published an evocative life story called Amid the Alien Corn: A Son’s Memoir. In it, he tracks how, even as a child, he became aware that his mother Ruth was withholding something of herself, and her past, from him. This disquiet comes to a head after her death.
