Her family has been trying to paint over her personal story for years with simplistic half-truths. An orphaned young lady, raised by her grandmother, has a neat-and-tidy picture of herself that begins to unravel by the complexities of circumstance. This story’s time period straddles the first nationwide vote in South Africa. In one sense, this story could only have taken place in South Africa in another, this story tragically repeats itself everywhere. It is also a story about real horrors also dividing us like sexual abuse, physical abuse, murder, and chronic dishonesty. Told from multiple perspectives, it represents the hard work of reconciliation in a culture divided by so many ephemeral things like ethnicity or skin color. This story of race, family, and other “ties that bind” is a product of its environment – South Africa around the end of apartheid – as much as it is a story of universal human nature.
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