Death Rattle

Her father's last wish was a simple coffin. Death has more complicated ideas.

Kgosi Morabe has spent forty years being the one who holds the secrets of others while keeping her own buried. She's a PR professional: Invisibility is the job. But when her father dies and the family descends on their Sandton mansion in a chaos of designer mourning dresses, four live cows, and a half-brother nobody knew existed, Kgosi finds herself at the centre of something she can't spin her way out of.

Because her father cheated death once, in a Soweto street in 1976. And now Death wants something back.

Ferociously funny, steeped in Yoruba mythology, and set inside the gilded dysfunction of Johannesburg's Black Diamond elite, Death Rattle is a debut that announces a major new voice in African speculative fiction. Grief is a performance, class is a weapon, and the Orisha Oya has been watching from the storm clouds all along.

Some inheritances you don't get to refuse.