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“Kelly-Eve Koopman’s memoir about the search for her lost father will break your heart and stitch it back together with luminous prose. Part memoir, part queer feminist anti-capitalist manifesto, Koopman has written a story for our times! Her elegant writing dazzles as it shines a light on the darkest crevices of broken families and psyches. It is a story of love lost and remade, in which the personal and political overlap with heartrending clarity. A brave and searingly honest narrative of a young black woman charting a healing course through our post-transitional society still grappling with the legacies of structural and intimate violence. Koopman has a rare gift and is a talent to watch!”

– Barbara Boswell, author of Grace

“This book serves as both the prescription and the medicine to the historical ills endured by women of colour. It is a love letter to our mothers, our grandmothers, their grandmothers (and ourselves) and, simultaneously, a cease and desist letter to the transgenerational trauma which for too long has taken root in our bodies. Koopman brilliantly rewrites herself, and all of us whose identities have been smudged, misshapen and erased, back into existence. Hard and heart-breaking, South Africa needs this book.”

– Sara-Jayne King, author of Killing Karoline

“Kelly Koopman is a brilliant watcher and gifted wordsmith. Because I Couldn’t Kill You is sensitive, brave, spiritual and sexy. An insight into one of Kaaps’s sharpest minds.”

– Chase Rhys, author of Kinnes