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Novelist connects with her past
Atlantic Sun
|June 19, 2025
Should stories of the Holocaust and apartheid still be told? This was the question posed by Sea Point author Angela Miller-Rothbart during a University of the Third Age (U3A) Atlantic Seaboard meeting held at Sea Point Place (CPOA) on Thursday, June 12.
Addressing a group of her peers, she reflected on the power of writing to process memories and preserve difficult histories.
Miller-Rothbart said writing helped her work through her feelings, reconnect with her past, and contribute to the collective memory of events many would rather forget.
"It became cathartic for me. It was therapeutic writing about it all. It was my way of saying Jakub. Jakub, I'm sorry I couldn't help you. And Amelia, forgive me? I was just a kid," she said, adding that she managed to express all her feelings in this book.
In her second book, Space between the Stars, based on a true story, Ms Miller-Rothbart writes about the trials of being in an inter-racial love story, which challenged apartheid.
This story is from the June 19, 2025 edition of Atlantic Sun.
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