{"product_id":"buy-holding-the-fort-toni-strasburg-conf20250403118","title":"Holding the Fort (Toni Strasburg )","description":"\u003ch1\u003eHolding the Fort\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Author: Strasburg, Toni \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003e About Book \u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Publisher: Kwela Books \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Published date: 2019-05-20 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Pages: 224 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e ISBN: 9780795709128 \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e GoodReads Rating: 3\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e Condition \u0026amp; Size \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Size: Format C (Large Format) \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Book Type: Paperback \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e Condition: As New \u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e Summary \u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I always tried to be cheerful when I saw my mother. I never told her that Frances was sad and weepy and wouldn’t eat, and that Keith was clingy and woke me several times a night, or that Pat was withdrawn and hard to approach.’\n\n\nActivists Rusty and Hilda Bernstein were arrested with many other South Africans following the 1960 State of Emergency and held for three months without trial. Toni, their eldest, at sixteen was left to look after her three younger siblings and was their only child allowed to visit them in jail.\n\n\nHilda kept a diary of her time in detention, filled with letters to the children, drawings for the younger siblings, poems, plays and menus she made to keep her fellow detainees entertained. Years later, Toni pieces together her mother’s diary, snippets from her father's writing and her own recollection, trying to make sense of this tumultuous time.\n\n\nHolding the Fort is the heart-breaking story of a family separated by unjust laws.\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Strasburg, Toni","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41628270919757,"sku":"CONF20250403118","price":119.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/3856\/4685\/files\/9780795709128_20250302_161811.jpg?v=1741099597","url":"https:\/\/readmatter.co.za\/products\/buy-holding-the-fort-toni-strasburg-conf20250403118","provider":"Readmatter","version":"1.0","type":"link"}