South African born and raised Hollywood screenwriter Helena Kriel
is researching the ancient text the Kama Sutra for a movie she’s
writing. At the same time, she is travelling to India to meet with
sages and find answers to the universal challenges of sex and love.
While searching for love in her doomed relationships, little does she
know she will find her answers in caring for her dying brother, Evan,
in South Africa.
Set in the mid-1990s, South Africa is just emerging from the
darkness of apartheid and bursting with vibrant chaos. The story
zooms in on an intense year in the narrator’s life. It centres around
the lively and eccentric South African Kriel family: Maya, the
combative but inspired mother; Lexi, the sister recently returned from
living in a temple in India; Ross, the younger brother diving with
sharks; and Helena, the narrator, herself on a journey to understand
love and death. At the heart of the story is Evan, her terminally ill
30-year-old gay brother, who has been keeping his illness a shameful
secret. Conscious, sensitive, terrified and trying to hang onto sanity
as his world changes, Evan becomes paralysed then finally goes
blind as death draws ever closer. But it is Evan who leads the family
through the fire.
In living through her brother’s fight to stay alive, the narrator finds
herself at the heart of a savage story, one she would not have
chosen. How could she know when she set out to India to find
ancient solutions to the modern problems of our age that her
brother’s approaching death would be her greatest teacher? How
could she imagine that dying brings everything to life?
This book title, Year of Facing Fire, ISBN: 9781928420477, by Helena Kriel, published by Jacana Media (October 24, 2019) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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