DYING IN NEW YORK

Dying in New York is the haunting story of Lerato Malema, a young and irrepressible South African whose wit and resilience shine through despite the abuse she has endured from before the age of twelve at the hands of her father, Thabo.

The narrative opens in a psychiatrist's office overlooking the Hudson River. Against a backdrop of the magnificent Manhattan skyline, Lerato paints an absorbing picture of her decade-long journey from Johannesburg to the United States. Her story transitions seamlessly from the sessions with Dr Evelyn Webber, her psychiatrist, to her escape from an abusive home and her experiences of the underbelly of modern South Africa. At its heart, Dying in New York is a story of hope and deep longing, made all the more poignant by Lerato's startling candour from the first page until the book's surprising conclusion. Oil field engineer turned banker turned writer, EKOW DUKER was educated in Ghana, the United Kingdom, the United States and France. His time in the oil industry took him to the harsh expanses of the Sahara desert and the fetid swamps of the Niger Delta, with lengthy stopovers in several countries in between. Since leaving the oil business, Ekow has worked mainly as a corporate strategist and in banking, roles that, at their core, are really all about story telling. Ekow lives and works in Johannesburg, South Africa.