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Geronique Solomons

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Geronique Solomons is a South African poet, storyteller, and educator who writes from the quiet spaces where memory, longing, and healing meet (pp. 19, 41). Her debut poetry memoir, The Vicissitudes of Life: No Memories, only Absence - Destiny awaits, maps the raw geometry of survival, grief, and the fierce, fiery rebirth of the human spirit (pp. 1, 34, 37). Rooted in the rich landscape of Cape Town, her verses act as a lantern through life's deepest valleys, transforming personal trials into universal testaments of endurance (pp. 6, 13, 16).Woven from the gentle threads of her late grandmother’s wisdom, the silent echo of her late father’s absence, and the soft, dancing rain of her children’s laughter, Geronique's poetry captures the delic ...more

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The Vicissitudes of Life: Destiny Awaits

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Uncommon Sense: The Fight to Fix Your Workplace Culture in the Wild West of Business

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