STORIES

Imbued with the thrilling texture of township language and life, and uncompromising in its depiction of Black South Africa, Innards tells the intimate stories of everyday folks processing the savagery of apartheid with grit, wit, and their own distinctive, bewildering humor.

Like many Americans today, Innards’ characters mirror the difficulty of navigating the shadows of a living past alongside the uncertain opportunities of the promised land.

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PRAISE FOR INNARDS

  • "Innards — a powerful, sharply observed debut story collection that’s unlike anything I’ve read...explores apartheid South Africa through a colourful cast of complex, beautifully rendered characters, whose electrifying stories will often leave you clutching at your own innards. I’m already looking forward to this writer’s next book."

    —NoViolet Bulawayo, Glory

  • “An unforgettable debut that hits with all the force of the sun. Complex and breathtaking, Innards is a book haunted by Apartheid’s monstrous shadow and illuminated by the radiant talent of one of our generation’s most original voices. Makhene writes like liberation should feel: transcendently.”

    —Junot Diaz, The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao

  • “Beautiful, lethal, funny, righteous Ablaze with the utterly familiar and the utterly mysterious. Seething with the kind of urgency and spirit that comes from understanding how precious any chance is to set a human heart fully alight. Simply, marvelous.”

    —Paul Harding, Tinkers

About The Author

Magogodi is known for reaching into your heart cavity and expanding that space within the span of a single sentence—both on the stage and on the page.

An Iowa Writers’ Workshop trained writer, Magogodi’s fancy pants writing awards include the Caine Africa Prize, Hedgebrook & McDowell Fellowships; as well as the Rona Jaffe Writing Award & Elie Wiesel Prize in Ethics.

Magogodi is a noted speaker, featured in The BBC, The New York Times and The Washington Post. She’s spoken as a keynote at Georgetown University, Hedgebrook and Creative Mornings.

As Founder & CEO of Love As A Kind of Cure, Magogodi helps folks grow from comfort to courage in their everyday activism.

A proudly Soweto made soul, Magogodi speaks powerfully to themes of belonging and otherness; creativity, craft and writing from the margins; as well as reclaiming our worth beyond our work lives. She’s spoken at the United Nations, MercyCorp, The Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and at companies like Unilever, Mastercard and MetLife.