Synopsis "Dance of the Rain (in English)"
Dance of the Rain Synopsis Fiction novel based mainly within History of Cape Town's District Six. When Melissa September and Jamie-Lynne from impoverished District Six take up employment as housemaids for the influential McCurdy family in Cape Town, they do not expect the turbulent twists their young Coloured lives are about to take. During the height of the apartheid era in South Africa, Melissa falls in love with the family's son, Nicholas, and they soon engage in secret sexual encounters. Soon before long she falls pregnant but miscarries. Behind the façade of tremendous success the McCurdies are in dire financial distress. The solution to their problem is bullying Nicholas into marrying the barren daughter, Rene, of anaffluent winemaker, named Cunningham. Despite a stern warning from Nicholas' sister about how he impregnated a coloured girl previously and how her family forced an abortion upon the girl, Melissa engages in an affair with now-married Nicholas. Coupling with the start of forced evacuations, she gives birth to a daughter with blue eyes and blonde hair, a child sure to be taken away by the government, to possibly disappear into the system forever. In the interest of her child's future, Melissa gives up the four-month-old baby to Nicholas and Rene who is moving to London, a place he promised the two of them will one day move to. Dance of the Rain is more than just a love story. It is a life story. This manuscript is thoroughly researched and has a very personal, honest feel, with stories I got from several people who actually lived in the District. Some facts, not been broadly addressed before, are visited: The vicinity was grossly overpopulated. Despite the novel attributes, it was also an illness infested dump where old people and babies died like flies in winter. It takes an honest, yet always sympathetic look at the backdoor abortions, how the homeless had not been provided for during convictions, the children coloured girls got from white bosses, molestation, crime, how everyone lived in unity like one big family and essentially, about forgiveness, letting go and moving one. Furthermore, I portrayed the angle of the people who executed the evacuations, the Jews who lived in the area, how people still visited the churches on Sundays and the origin of traditions such as the Coon parades on Second New Years. This book took me several years to write. I kindly urge to consider its publication seriously. I shall be completely co-operative when it comes to all appearances required of me for marketing purposes.
