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Success OF THE JANET HEIDINGER KAFKA PRIZE FOR FICTION FINALIST FOR THE Earth PRIZEAbbe is just a disturbed young mom living on the borders of Honolulu along with her partner, Greg, the pastor in a small church. Their lives are abruptly riven by misfortune when their three-year-old child, Cleo, is hit and killed by vehicle. As Greg turns to Lord and neighborhood for convenience, Abbe turns inward and reflects upon her own struggling past.  Isla Morley wonderfully weaves the history of Abbe’s suffering with a gripping account of her tempestuous youth in apartheid South Africa---and how Abbe’s dad, a villainous drunk, kept her family hostage for years with his trend, till they eventually started initially to plan their escape from him. Come Saturday is just a drama in regards to a girl breaking free from her past and of her suffering, and what it requires to regenerate hope when all appears lost.