Prudence Wright and her husband Davis are caught in a heavy storm on their way to a business dinner and end up hitting a dog. Then, unexpectedly, a homeless man attacks their car while they are ...

Shifting between South Africa in the late 1990s and Washington, D.C., two decades later, the novel tells the story of Prudence Wright — the American girl — who is forced to confront a past she ...

From 1996 Johannesburg, the novel flashes forward to 2018 Washington, D.C., where Prudence Wright and her husband, Davis, are by all outward appearances very happily married. The Wrights are ...