Preorder: Casualties of Truth by Lauren Francis-Sharma

From the author of Book of the Little Axe, nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a riveting literary novel with the sharp edges of a thriller about the abuses of history and the costs of revenge, set between Washington, DC, and Johannesburg, South AfricaPrudence Wright seems to haveit a loving husband, Davis; a spacious home in Washington, DC; and thepast glories of a successful career at McKinsey, which now enables her todedicate her days to her autistic son Roland. When she and Davis head out fordinner with one of Davis’s new colleagues on a stormy summer evening filledwith startling and unwelcome interruptions, Prudence has little reason to thinkthat certain details of her history might arise sometime between cocktails andthe appetizer course.Yet when Davis’s colleague turns out tobe Matshediso, a man from Prudence’s past, she is transported back to theformative months she spent as a law student in South Africa in 1996. As anintern at a Johannesburg law firm, Prudence at