About the Author
Kagiso Lesego Molope
Kagiso Lesego Molope was born and educated in South Africa, before coming to Canada in 1997. Her first novel, Dancing in the Dust (Mawenzi House) was highly praised. This Book Betrays My Brother won the Percy Fitzpatrick Prize for Youth Literature in South Africa, where it was first published. She lives in Ottawa.
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