OUGAT - From a hoe into a housewife and then some

<p>'There's an entire generation of South African women who ought to read this book.' - Sara-Jayne King author of Killing Karoline</p><p><br></p><p>'Ougat is masterfully written - raw unpretentious unsettling. Shana Fife captures all the darkness from her body psyche and life with fearless honesty and transparency.' - Frazer Barry award-winning theatre practitioner writer and musician</p><p><br></p><p>A bold unapologetic memoir about abuse coming-of-age a woman owning her sexuality and seizing her power. Shana Fife has a unique and compelling voice which she uses with great effect to break with gender and sexuality taboos. - Dr Barbara Boswell author of Grace</p><p><br></p><p>By the time Shana Fife is 25 she has two kids from different fathers. To the Coloured people she grew up around she is a jintoe a jezebel jas a woman with mileage on the pussy. She is alone she has no job and as she is constantly reminded by her community she is pretty much worthless and unloveable. How did she become this woman the epitome of everything she was conditioned to strive not to be?</p><p><br></p><p>Unsettlingly honest and brutally blunt Ougat is Shana Fife's story of survival: of surviving the social conditioning of her Cape Flats upbringing of surviving sexual violence and depression and of ultimately escaping a cycle of abuse.</p><p><br></p><p>A powerful fresh and disarming new voice - Shana's writing is like nothing you've read before.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>