Coconut is an extraordinary debut novel about growing up black in white suburbia, where the cost of fitting in can be your very very identity.  It is against this backdrop of potential loss that two extraordinary young women struggle to find themselves.
 
Rich, pampered Ofilwe and her brother Tshepo are swiftly losing their culture. Ofilwe strives to fit into a privileged but soulless world that opens its doors to them as quickly as it shuts them. Hers is the story of a generation that is given everything, onl to fall apart under the weight  of history and expectation. 
 
Hip, sassy Fiks is an ambitious go-getter from the township, desperate to leave her vicious past behind and embrace the glossy sophistication she knows only from magazines. But the golden streets of modern Jozi prove more complicated and unforgiving than even she is prepared for, threatening to destroy her carefully constructed world at every turn.