Great African Reads discussion

I'm not sure whether other people are still following the 2018 short story list. I was a bit behind but I am catching up. You can find a pdf of this short story by South African author Mary Watson through this link.

As the end date is already behind us, I write some lines on what I thought about the story.

I finished it a couple of days ago and still don't really know what to make of it exactly. It is short and reads easily, but it is a dark story, dealing with the enormous inequalities of South Africa.

Watson shows us these contrasts (between "wild children" and the spoiled suburban ones) through the eyes of a young girl that misses her mother that is too devoted in her support of the poor children.

I just read this. I liked the writing and the child's point of view. But a bit depressing really...