In the maid`s room - A novel

Published by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd, 2016, softcover, 213 pages, condition; as new.

How to be white when youre no longer the centre of attention? When you no longer even matter? How to be white when everyones patience runs out? Disco Dave is a South African hipster on the Port Elizabeth social scene, such as it is. His dreams of media moguldom evaporate before his eyes as the scene becomes blacker and his understanding of it more tenuous. Hard-up for bucks, he moves into the domestic workers quarters on his property and rents out the main house. Sizwe arrives and swiftly sets about taking over Discos life. He impregnates his ex-girlfriend Jazz, founds a rival media company and slides into a job Disco had his eye on. The blacks are taking over! Disco finds a black girlfriend, but even that doesnt stop it. Desperate for relevance, he has to get famous somehow. But who even needs white celebs any more? While his fellow non-blacks embrace wilful ignorance, hippy oblivion and gangsterism, Disco knows just enough to know he doesnt know enough. As South Africa finally becomes a black country, he finds himself asking, what about me? In the Maids Room is a scruffy, hilarious shambles of an episodic novel set in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth, that trendsetting bellwether of national change. Its about the surfer, stoner culture of the Bay, but also the slow ignominious death of white entitlement. Theres also lank pomping.