| ISBN | 9781920397425 |
| Pages | 96 |
| Dimensions | 203 x 127 mm |
| Published | 2012 |
| Publisher | Modjaji Books, South Africa |
| Format | Paperback |
Looking for Trouble and other Mostly Yeoville Stories
by Colleen Higgs
Looking for Trouble is a collection of short stories set in Yeoville from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. The stories capture with a dark humour the lives of young people trying to make a go of things, given the constraints of the country and the volatile period. Most of the stories have been published in literary magazines or in collections in South Africa, the UK and Uganda.
Reviews
"These wry, subtle stories are deceptively simple, completely compelling, Brave, evocative writing that takes you back to the intense milieu of 80s Yeoville, and to all the bittersweet sexual questing of youth."
"These stories awakened in me a sense of nostalgia, not only for Yeoville in the early nineties, but for being young, love's fool and sexually reckless. At some point, experience forces us to lose our illusions and come of age, damaged by love but wiser. This spot-on collection captures that arc of life and, as I turned the last page, I felt we had lived well, if imperfectly.
"Looking for Trouble is a book that will make you late for work. Like an unexpected fist in the stomach. Words that will stay with you long after you turned the last page."