Join essayist and former political writer for The New Republic EVE FAIRBANKS for a discussion of her book “The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning.”
BOOK DISCUSSION DETAILS
July 20 @ 7:00 pm
Odyssey Books
More Details: https://www.odysseybks.com/event/eve-fairbanks
Monday July 25, 2022 7:00 PM ET
Harvard Book Store
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Join in an in-person event with Eve Fairbanks, author of “The Inheritors.”
AUTHOR TALK DETAILS
July 21 @ 7:00 pm
Politics & Prose – Conn Ave
5015 Connecticut Ave NW
Washington, District of Columbia 20008
More Details: https://www.politics-prose.com/event/book/eve-fairbanks-inheritors-intimate-portrait-of-south-africas-racial-reckoning-conn-ave
About the Author:
Eve Fairbanks writes about change: in cities, countries, landscapes, morals, values, and our ideas of ourselves. A former political writer for The New Republic, her essays and reportage have been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets. Born in Virginia, she now lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. The Inheritors is her debut.
About the Book:
A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping and exquisite look at what really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy.
Dipuo grew up on the south side of a mine dump that segregated Johannesburg’s black townships from the white-only city. Some nights, she hiked to the top. To a South African teenager in the 1980s—even an anti-apartheid activist like Dipuo—the divide that separated her from the glittering lights on the other side appeared eternal. But in 1994, the world’s last explicit racial segregationist regime collapsed to make way for something unprecedented.
With penetrating psychological insight, intimate reporting, and bewitching prose, 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—award-winning journalist Eve Fairbanks probes what happens when people once locked into certain kinds of power relations find their status shifting. Observing subtle truths about race and power that extend well beyond national borders, she 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—for better or worse—they no longer recognize?
