ABSTRACT
Two young women from Gilchrist North explain to the interviewer what a ‘good life’ is. For them, a good life is ‘. . . where they’d be able to study in the earlier grades as well’. This is a poignant and painful statement, filled with loss. This quote is by two young women who live in a disadvantaged community and have precarious relationships to education. Their words tell of their feelings and their closeness to trauma [they do not reveal what this is and we did not pursue this information]. What was clear in this interview and in many others with the young people was, as we argued in Chapter One, the thickness and nearness of trauma and difficulties, the connections that this had with their precarious education and the intertwining of feelings and emotions.
