{"product_id":"the-inheritors-an-intimate-portrait-of-south-africas-racial-reckoning-9781476725277","title":"The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis \"elegant\" and \"unfailingly empathetic\" narrative\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efollows three ordinary South Africans living through the most extraordinary reckoning with race and power any modern country has ever faced.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDipuo, 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 realize--one night on the same mine dump--that 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll three--Dipuo, Christo, Malaika--and so many other South Africans would make new lives while facing huge questions: How can we let go of our pasts? How can we, as individuals, pay historic debts? And what will people who care passionately about being good do when the meaning of right changes overnight? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Inheritors\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story about the unexpected fates that lie ahead for other countries now facing their own reckonings over history, race, and power. Written at the intersection of politics and psychology and told through an unorthodox blend of \"richly drawn\" lives and \"incisive observations\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e), acclaimed journalist Eve Fairbanks brings a coming world \"vividly into focus\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e). \"Resonant with the current American situation,\" \u003ci\u003eThe Inheritors\u003c\/i\u003e \"draws out tangled emotions with such skill and sensitivity\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) to arrive at subtle truths and new revelations about our responsibilities to the past--and to the future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/18\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781476725277\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.38h x 5.50w x 1.04d","brand":"Eve Fairbanks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42875182612661,"sku":"9781476725277","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_60828438-e50b-4852-9128-7ef4116722c3.jpg?v=1684814165","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-inheritors-an-intimate-portrait-of-south-africas-racial-reckoning-9781476725277","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}