Tlotlo Tsamaase – författare

Serial the podcast meets The Other Black Girl in a haunted house, as young African author disappears after being invited to an exclusive writing residency, and her sister is left only with a true crime podcast to help her uncover the truth about what really happened…Anaya Sebeya is missing.Before her disappearance, Anaya was a brilliant writer: a rising star. Invited to a prestigious writing residency at Günter Huis, an eerie colonial mansion on the slopes of Devil’s Peak, Anaya was supposed to craft the next great African literary masterpiece—and so were four other young, emerging writers, all competing for the grand prize. But Anaya never made it home.When a sensationalized true crime podcast about Anaya emerges, claiming to reveal everything that happened at Günter Huis, her sister Ranewa is both skeptical and furious. But with each surreal episode, Ranewa begins to piece together a truth worse than she ever could have imagined…At Günter Huis, Anaya’s nightmares consume her. Time slips away from her. Günter Huis inflicts distorted visions and terrible supernatural visitations, pushing Anaya to tell a story no one dares. But exorcising the house’s endless cycle of evil requires a sacrifice that neither Anaya nor her fellows are ready to make.In House of Margins, award-winning Motswana author Tlotlo Tsamaase delivers a mesmerizing story of a young generation facing colonialism’s cultural legacy in Africa.

We are proud to present the People of Color Take over FSI Special Issue!Edited by Nisi ShawlFiction''What Futures'' by Su-Yee Lin''Shadow Animals'' by Stephen Graham Jones''Darkout'' by E. Lily Yu''The Executioner'' by Jennifer Marie Brissett''I Understand'' by Jermaine McGill''Walking Round Money'' by Paul Miles''Serving Fish'' by Christopher Caldwell''Fortitude'' by Eliza Victoria''The Sacrifice of the Hanged Monkey'' by Minsoo Kang''Maggie Doll'' by Alex Jennings''Glass Bottle Trick'' by Nalo Hopkinson''The Great Leap of Shin'' by Henry Lien''The Palapye White Birch'' by Tlotlo Tsamaase''The Ace of Knives'' by Tonya Liburd''Legacy'' by Irette Y. Patterson''Recognizing Gabe: un cuento de hadas'' by Alberto YanezNon Fiction''Must Watch TV: Into the Badlands'' by S. Qiouyi Lu''Rebirth, Truth-with-a-Tea, and FIYAH'' by Erin Roberts''Read Me! 7'' by Terence Taylor''Hopefulbright to the Rescue!'' by Darcie Little Badger''Star Trek’s Lt. Cmmdr. Worf and His Jny of Ontological Klingon-ness'' by Maurice Broaddus

"A fearless novel that probes ideas of surveillance, misogyny and class. . . . Tsamaase brilliantly tackles ideas of motherhood and autonomy. The author seamlessly blends a body-hopping ghost story about revenge with a narrative about the importance of memory. It's such an original first novel, and I'll be reading whatever comes next." -New York Times Book ReviewThis genre-bending Africanfuturist horror novel blends The Handmaid's Tale with Get Out in an adrenaline-packed, cyberpunk body-hopping ghost story exploring motherhood, memory, and a woman's right to her own body.Nelah seems to have it all: fame, wealth, and a long-awaited daughter growing in a government lab. But, trapped in a loveless marriage to a policeman who uses a microchip to monitor her every move, Nelah's perfect life is precarious. After a drug-fueled evening culminates in an eerie car accident, Nelah commits a desperate crime and buries the body, daring to hope that she can keep one last secret.The truth claws its way into Nelah's life from the grave. As the ghost of her victim viciously hunts down the people Nelah holds dear, she is thrust into a race against the clock: in order to save any of her remaining loved ones, Nelah must unravel the political conspiracy her victim was on the verge of exposing-or risk losing everyone. Set in a cruel futuristic surveillance state where bodies are a government-issued resource, this harrowing story is a twisty, nail-biting commentary on power, monstrosity, and bodily autonomy. In sickeningly evocative prose, Womb City interrogates how patriarchy pits women against each other as unwitting collaborators in their own oppression. In this devastatingly timely debut novel, acclaimed short fiction writer Tlotlo Tsamaase brings a searing intelligence and Botswana's cultural sensibility to the question: just how far must a woman go to bring the whole system crashing down?