from iadam

I received a free advance e-copy of this book from the publisher through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I had a special interest in this book as I had been to South Africa on a medical humanitarian mission in 2003. South Africa is a beautiful and exotic country. It is a place where c...

from susan.h.schofield

Between 3.5 and 4 stars. I won a copy of this book from Goodreads. This isn't something I would typically read but I enjoyed it and I learned a lot. The author was thorough in her research and it definitely read more like a novel than a non-fiction book. It did get a little confusing when it jump...

from bookmuse56

An engrossing multilayered narrative of the 1993 brutal murder of American Amy Biehl, an Anti-Apartheid activist, in a South African township and the complicated web of forgiveness, truthfulness, and justice implied by the Truth and Reconciliation Program. The author spent fours researching the b...

from BrandieC

4.5 stars I belong to the Newest Literary Fiction Goodreads group, and our monthly buddy reads are usually (you guessed it) new lit fic. For July, however, our moderator challenged us to read as many non-fiction books from our TBR lists as we could find room for. Although at last count I had 97 n...

from ozzer

Amy Biehl was a 26-year-old White American who was brutally murdered by a mob in Gugulethu Township near Cape Town, SA in 1993. This murder became notorious because of the victim's race, because the four men convicted of her murder were eventually released by the Truth and Reconciliation Commissi...