The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies

A darkly comic, surreal novel set in a South African township, where a young crematorium worker and obituarist moves through family betrayal, rumor, grief, myth, and the unclaimed dead.

In a South African township, a young crematorium worker writes unauthorized obituaries for the unclaimed dead while navigating family betrayal, rumor, violence, and a world where myth and everyday life refuse to stay separate. The Hollow Sound of Lightweight Bodies is a darkly comic, formally restless novel about memory, mortality, and the stories that survive those society would rather forget.