About the author

Mishka Hoosen was born in Johannesburg. She completed high school at Interlochen Arts Academy in the USA, and has an MA in Creative Writing from Rhodes University. She is currently studying anthropology, with special interests in gender, violence, trauma, and folklore.

Flomotion is an official reseller of creative works by Mishka Hoosen. For enquiries on how to purchase these books, please email ebrahim@flomotion.co.za.

 

Call it a Difficult Night, Deep South, 2015 (R120)

★★★★★

“[a] searing debut… brilliant…” – Bongani Kona, The Sunday Times

“Call It A Difficult Night is immersive, both in its feverish pacing and in its insistence that the reader inhabit the mind of one whose mind is broken.” – Kwanele Sosibo, Mail & Guardian

Call it a difficult night is a story about madness. Using anecdotes, poems, dialogue, and fragments of historical research, it follows a nonlinear path in tracing the life of its young narrator/protagonist. 

Institutionalised after a ‘final break’, a young woman remembers in sharp detail her disturbing childhood visions, which have become overwhelming by the time she is at a boarding school in the US and later at university in South Africa. When she finally gets a diagnosis — temporal lobe epilepsy — a doctor explains that she is likely to be either demented or brain dead by the time she’s 30.

Call it a Difficult Night is Mishka’s debut novel.

 

Road Trip with James Dean, Flomotion, 2011 (R40)

Road Trip with James Dean is a collection of original, mostly-unpublished poems and short essays by Mishka Hoosen. Originally published in 2011 to help pay for her studies in Creative Writing, the collection is a sensitive and thought-provoking ramble through a variety of issues and topics.

Road Trip with James Dean is now available once again, exclusively through Flomotion.