The Paper House

Twenty-two-year-old journalist Anna lives with not one, but two eccentric dads in a small town in rural KwaZulu-Natal. 

 

She is trying to manage her father’s now-critical health problems, but it’s hard to come to terms with her unconventional family. She recalls the break-up of her parents’ marriage after her father was, as he puts it, ‘bliksemmed’ out of the closet, recalling the reactions of his conservative Afrikaans family, their gossipy neighbours and her kaftan-clad mother, who is now on amicable terms with her ex-husband and his partner Stefan. But it’s not just her father’s mortality and the oddities of her family that Anna has to deal with: she also has to adjust to her eventful new job as reporter. When her father suffers a second, more serious medical crisis, Anna has to learn how to balance being a loving, caring daughter with living her own life, her way.

 

The Paper House  is a poignant, humorous celebration of life, love and family, however unusual that family may be.