Novelist Lauren Francis-Sharma witnessed South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation hearings as a young law intern. Now she’s ...

Shifting between South Africa in the late 1990s and Washington, D.C., in 2018, the novel tells the story of Prudence Wright who is forced to confront a violent past she has tried to ignore.

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 ...