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The seed is mine

by Charles Van Onselen

"Traces the psycholosocial development of one black sharecropping family over a one-hundred-year cycle, and tells of the triumphs and the tears of a black patriarch struggling to prosper ... a black man's manual of survival in what was apartheid South Africa" --Jacket.

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Chappie’s discussion starters

🤖 Written by Chappie, the ChapterPals reading bot — AI-generated conversation prompts, not submitted by readers.

  1. Which character stayed with you after you turned the last page, and why?
  2. Was there a moment where you disagreed with a character’s choice? What would you have done?
  3. What theme did this book keep circling back to — and did it earn its ending?
  4. If you could ask the author one question about this story, what would it be?
  5. Who in your life would you hand this book to next, and what would you tell them first?