In the canon
Down Second Avenue
- Form
- Form Autobiography
- Year
- Year 1959
- Pages
- Pages 220
A Black South African recalls a childhood split between a grandmother's rural hut and a crowded Pretoria slum, becomes a teacher, loses the job for opposing segregated schools, and finally leaves the country he can no longer safely live in.
I have never known why we—my brother, sister and I—were taken to the country when I was five.
The blurb, the gist, the why of the day and the work itself are in the app. The first button needs it on this device; the second gets it there.