Twilight People
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abandonment
africa
african american
american south
apartheid
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autobiography
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civil rights
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ex pat
expatriate
family
forgiveness
history
identity
immigration
imperialism
lost family
lost siblings
memoir
mississippi
nonfiction
personal narrative
political history
prejudice
race
racial politics
racism
reconciliation
refugee
self discovery
sisters
social history
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south africa
Product details
- ISBN 9780520243989
- Weight: 635g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 May 2006
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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David Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were actually his sisters. The girls had been left behind in South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country in 1966, at the height of apartheid, to start a new life in Meridian, Mississippi, with Houze's American father. This revelation triggers a journey of self-discovery and reconnection that ranges from the shores of South Africa to the dirt roads of Mississippi - and back. Gripping, vivid, and poignant, this deeply personal narrative uses the unravelling mystery of Houze's family and his quest for identity as a prism through which to view the tumultuous events of the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa. "Twilight People" is a stirring memoir that grapples with issues of family, love, abandonment, and ultimately, forgiveness and reconciliation. It is also a spellbinding detective story - steeped in racial politics and the troubled history of two continents - of one man's search for the truth behind the enigmas of his, and his mother's, lives.
David Houze is a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism.
