What We Are Reading Today: The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks

What We Are Reading Today: The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks
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Updated 21 August 2022
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What We Are Reading Today: The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks

What We Are Reading Today: The Inheritors by Eve Fairbanks

Eve Fairbanks’ The Inheritors tells the story of a country in the throes of a great reckoning through the lives of Dipuo, her daughter Malaika, and Christo — one of the last white South Africans drafted to fight for the apartheid regime.

Observing subtle truths about race and power that extend well beyond national borders, the book explores questions that preoccupy so many of us today: How can we let go of our pasts, as individuals and as countries? How should historical debts be paid? And how can a person live an honorable life in a society that  they no longer recognize?

A dozen years in the making, the book takes  exquisite look at what really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy.