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Casualties of truth : a novel / Lauren Francis-Sharma.
Van Pelt Library PS3606.R3658 C37 2025
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Francis-Sharma, Lauren, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission--Fiction.
- South Africa.
- Apartheid--Fiction.
- Apartheid.
- African American women lawyers--Fiction.
- African American women lawyers.
- Internship programs--Fiction.
- Internship programs.
- Justice--Fiction.
- Justice.
- Law firms--Fiction.
- Law firms.
- Post-apartheid era--Fiction.
- Post-apartheid era.
- Racism--Fiction.
- Racism.
- Secrecy--Fiction.
- Secrecy.
- South Africa--Fiction.
- Washington (D.C.)--Fiction.
- Washington (D.C.).
- Genre:
- Social problem fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 257 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Atlantic Monthly Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic, 2025.
- Summary:
- "Prudence Wright seems to have it all: a loving husband, Davis; a spacious home in Washington, DC; and the past glories of a successful career at McKinsey, which now enables her to dedicate her days to her autistic son Roland. When she and Davis head out for dinner with one of Davis's new colleagues on a stormy summer evening filled with startling and unwelcome interruptions, Prudence has little reason to think that certain details of her history might arise sometime between cocktails and the appetizer course. Yet when Davis's colleague turns out to be Matshediso, a man from Prudence's past, she is transported back to the formative months she spent as a law student in South Africa in 1996. As an intern at a Johannesburg law firm, Prudence attended sessions of the Truth and Reconciliation hearings, which uncovered the many horrors and human rights abuses of the Apartheid state, and which fundamentally shaped her sense of righteousness and justice. Prudence experienced personal horrors in South Africa as well, long hidden and now at risk of coming to light. When Matshediso finally reveals the real reason behind his sudden reappearance, he will force Prudence to examine her most deeply held beliefs and to excavate inner reserves of resilience and strength...With keen insight and gripping tension, Casualties of Truth explosively mines questions of whether we are ever truly able to remove the stains of our past and how we may attempt to reconcile with unquestionable wrongs."-- Provided by publisher.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Francis-Sharma, Lauren. Casualties of truth.
- ISBN:
- 9780802163783
- 0802163785
- OCLC:
- 1442731370
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