New York: Putnam, (2017). First edition - The first novel by this author born in South Africa but living in Canada, set in Apartheid-era South Africa - "Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. . . the Soweto Uprising, in which a protest by black students ignites racial conflict, alters the fault lines on which their society is built, and shatters their worlds when Robins parents are left dead and Beautys daughter goes missing.. . a beautifully rendered look at loss, racism, and the creation of family." 415 pp.