“I’ll break open the story and tell you what is there. Then, like the others that have fallen out onto the sand, I will finish with it, and the wind will take it away.”

An engaging, vivid, insightful book, this work reveals the universality of women’s experiences and feelings despite vast differences in culture and society, through stories of childhood, marriage, motherhood, and loss. Nǂisa helps us know what it means to be !Kung, to be a woman, and finally, to be human.

NǂISA is a !Kung woman from the Dobe region of Botswana, located in the Kalahari desert. Nǂisa is the story of her life, as told in her own words.