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Agency is a vivid, searching memoir of identity, belonging, and the long road to self-determination – at times side-splitting, at others gut wrenching.

Adopted at birth, a boy from ‘the Agency’ is placed into an oddball family in 1970s lower Claremont, where streets named after dead American Presidents frame a childhood lived in the harsh Kodachrome glow of Apartheid South Africa. Among suspicious home radio broadcasts, questionable judo masters, early morning swimming lanes and ballet classes, he grows up with a persistent sense of otherness.

When a helicopter crashes from the sky just metres away, and the murder of a beloved godfather shatters the illusion of safety, the questions begin: Who am I? Where do I belong?

Finally, in the stark landscapes of the Klein Karoo, he begins to re-assemble the puzzle of his life, piece by piece – absurd misadventures and hard reckonings, privilege and loss – simply to survive.

“Funny. Moving. Gripping. Testimony to the healing powers of the Klein Karoo.” — Sally Andrew, author of Recipes for Love and Murder

“A queer South African classic in the making. Agency is a triumph.” — Herman Lategan, author of Son of a Whore