"My True Story: Prose & Poetry" spoils the reader with one long prose-poem, almost 70 individual poems, a thorough and insightful background section, many assignments for poetry students and teachers, and a supplement about the father's prolonged struggle to seek justice and rebuild his professional reputation, tarnished by rivals within the educational system..
Chereze Salome Booysen's distinctive poetic and prosaic writing style, along with her visions for educational reform and heartfelt loyalty towards her family, makes this book relevant regardless of one's religious orientation.