Any author will tell you that a book launch could kill you.You perform for about an hour, that time often extended by the obligatory Q&A session, after which wellmeaning people form long queues for you to sign your books they had just purchased.At a poorly managed launch, more than one admirer will engage you in a lengthy conversation about anything, oblivious to the mildly agitated people behind him or her.By this time you no longer hear words, your legs want to give way under you, and you are dying of thirst or hunger or both.But smile you must, for these people made the time to come out and hear you on a cold night and even spent their money on your book.Read more top quality opinion and analysis hereThere was, however, something puzzling about the family approaching me on Tuesday last week at a Johannesburg book launch.The wife and mother already seemed to have tears in her eyes. The father stood back, smiling gently. And the daughter, a Wits archaeology student, had six of the ...
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