September 9, 2021
If You Want To Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais
#throwbackthursday
Genre/Categories/Setting: Historical Fiction, (post Apartheid) South Africa, Family Life, Sisters
In 2020, I decided to systematically revisit my older review posts and update them. On Thursdays, I’ll be re-sharing a few of these great reads. Today, I’m re-sharing a compelling family drama, If You Want To Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais.
I’m linking up today with Davida @ The Chocolate Lady’s Book Review Blog for #throwbackthursday.
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My Summary:
“If You Want to Make God Laugh is the compelling story of three unforgettable women living in post-Apartheid South Africa at the time of a growing AIDS epidemic and threats of civil war. Zodwa is seventeen, pregnant, poor, and lives in a squatter’s camp. Ruth and Delilah are middle-aged sisters who live on an inherited, rural farm. While Ruth is an unhappy, disillusioned, and newly divorced socialite, Delilah is a former nun and social worker who is hiding a big secret. A newborn baby will bring these characters together, and this is a story of their precarious relationships, of sibling jealousy, rivalry, and healing, and of found family.”
“I’d often wondered since then if a child could be inoculated in the womb against the horror of the world through the power of its mother’s love; if that love could infuse joy into a child even when her presence couldn’t.”
If You Want to Make God Laugh…..tell Him your plans…
Continue here for my full review of If You Want To Make God Laugh…
QOTD:
Have you read If You Want To Make God Laugh or is it on your TBR?
Have you read Hum If You Don’t Know the Words by the same author?
Thanks for bringing this one to my attention Carol. I am very curious about both of these books and the author.
I liked Make God Laugh a little more than Hum but both are interesting and well written!
Hi Carol! Hum if you don’t know the words are on my TBR and Kindle, but I actually have never heard of If you want to make God laugh. And that is a scary thought as I am a South African! It really is strange what books are the ones that get “promoted” here in SA. But I will take a look at If you want to make God laugh. Sounds very interesting!
Elza Reads
That’s interesting you haven’t heard of it there! I like Laugh even more than Hum. I’m eager to hear what you think!
I didn’t know she had written anything else
I like this a little better than Hum
Sounds amazingly powerful! Great review Carol!
Thanks Kym! 😍🙌
I wouldn’t have guessed this is such a series read from the title.
Both can be read as stand alones….
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