Description
Feverish by Gigi Fenster is a memoir exploring childhood, family, friendship, creativity and empathy, moving between the author’s experiences growing up in South Africa and her later life in New Zealand.
In an unusual attempt to escape the constraints of rational thought and experience life differently, Fenster decides to induce a fever in herself, believing that fever might offer a more instinctive, “writerly” way of seeing the world. The result is an unconventional and deeply personal exploration of her life and the questions that have shaped her as a writer.
From her childhood in South Africa and complicated relationship with her psychiatrist father to her troubled friendship with Simon and her experiences as a mother of two daughters, Fenster reflects on vulnerability, bravery, transgression, creativity and the importance of empathy.
Witty, intelligent and unconventional, Feverish is a good choice for readers interested in memoir, South African writing, family stories, creativity and introspective literary non-fiction.
