Marilyn's Dress

<p>The stories in <strong><em>Marilyn's Dress</em></strong> are set in South Africa during the tumultuous years of <strong>Nelson Mandela</strong> and beyond in which the tangled histories of violence and <strong>apartheid</strong> leak into the lives of <strong>ordinary people</strong> trying to make sense of what remains.</p><p> Graeme Friedman plunges us into the <strong>relationships</strong> between mother and daughter author and his writing student and her subject matter psychologist and his patient through <strong>ruptures in memory</strong> and perception and reveals the impact of the <strong>legacies of trauma</strong> in a post-democratic South Africa.  </p><p>Drawing from his years as an expert witness in political trials Friedman delivers a collection <strong>rich </strong>with details<strong> insights </strong>and<strong> heartbreaks</strong> that renders a perspective into a wounded society riven by an <strong>unforgiving past</strong>. <em>Marilyn's Dress</em> is the latest offering by a <strong>masterful storyteller</strong> who knows how to handle the hauntings of humanity with <strong>compassion tenderness </strong>and<strong> nuance</strong>.</p>