Verdict: carrot
Small Moving Parts is the aptly named title of a book about life. Not life as in grand narratives and uni- linear trajectories, but as in a big box containing a constellation of mainly hardships and hurts in response to which one can choose to roll over in defeat or simply staunch one’s wounds and carry on as best one can.
Set in Durban in the sixties, Durban academic Sally-Ann Murray’s first novel is a finely detailed coming-of- age tale about the bright, busy and constantly-thinking young Halley Murphy , raised in a corporation flat in Durban’s working-class Umbilo
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