The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks is a non-fiction book (we alternate fiction a non-fiction) and winner of the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction.

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.

We chose this book because our discussion last month of the classic novel, Cry the Beloved Country made us wonder what South Africa is like almost seventy years later.