The West Rand Jive Cats Boxing Club

* From the author of the Orange Debut shortlisted, The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam - comes the paperback publication of a second novel about coming of age in South Africa at a time that is at once charmed and cruel

Goaded by the pulse of Elvis, Little Richard and the kwela kwela rhythms of the black ghettos, best friends Tommy and Chris, twelve-year-olds growing up on the mines of Johannesburg, look to prove their grit on the slumyard dance floors of the West Rand Cons Mine and in the sweat-soaked ring of the boxing club.But Tommy has a little sister Cecilia, sweet, whimsical and vulnerable. Unwittingly, she will make the friends face a choice between courage and cowardice, between loyalty and betrayal.