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Book SynopsisWinner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction This ';elegant' and ';unfailingly empathetic' narrative (The New York Times) follows three ordinary South Africans living through the most extraordinary reckoning with race and power any modern country has ever faced.Dipuo, who grew up in apartheid-era Johannesburg's largest Black township, conceived her only daughter, Malaika, on the mine dump that separated the Black city from the white one. Christo, one of the last white men drafted to police that boundary, would come to realizeone night on the same mine dumpthat everything he had been taught to believe was collapsing to make way for something unprecedented. For Malaika and her peers would be born to a historic destiny: to grow up and live in a Black-led society.
All threeDipuo, Christo, Malaikaand so many other South Africans would make new lives while facing huge questions: How can we let go of our pasts? How ca
