This collection by first-time author Perfect Hlongwane offers a biting portrait of inner-city Jo’burg, ‘a place where dreams come to die’. Written as a series of interlinked stories centring around an eclectic ensemble of characters, it conjures for readers a city both familiar and surprising. With its vein of painful self-examination, evocative sense of place and unflinching exploration of the rawer aspects of Jo’burg living, it brings to mind the impact of cult literary figures like Dambudzo Marechere and Phaswane Mpe.