MFBooks Joburg invites you to the launch of Saskia Bailey’s debut book, Whatever: A 21st-century Memoir.

Nick Hamman will be in conversation with Saskia at the launch.

‘A brutally honest, beautifully crafted memoir, for a generation of Millennials realising that everything’s just as messed up as they are.’
– Nick Hamman, 5FM

About the book

Whatever is the thrillingly frank and sometimes hilariously dark memoir of now 19-year-old Saskia.

Brought up by two eccentric artist parents and the granddaughter of Drum founder Jim Bailey, Saskia grows up in an extraordinary home where a train station of wildly interesting local and international guests form the wallpaper of her childhood. Saskia observes the invasion of guests like a hungry voyeur, at times an ancient sage, at others a resentful, depressed-with-the-world hormonal teenager.

Whatever is the Millennial’s stock answer to everything. This is not a coming of age book or a traditional memoir. It does not try to explore an entire life, inspire or educate but rather consists of 30 fragmentary chapters brilliantly embracing Saskia’s experiences and ideas.

Event details 

Date: Thursday 4 April 2019
Time: 18:00 for 18:30
Venue: Love Books, 53 Rustenburg Rd, Melville, Johannesburg
RSVP: kate@lovebooks.co.za or 011 726 7408
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Categories Non-fiction South Africa

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