The Reactive

ABOUT Psst! Check out the Double Exposure sale here, to score both Masande Ntshanga books at once! * Winner of The Betty Trask Award (2018)* Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize Finalist* Etisalat Prize for Literature Longlist* One of the Best Books of the Year 2016 —Men's Journal, Flavorwire, City Press, The Sunday Times, The Star, This is Africa, Africa's a Country, Sunday World "[The Reactive is] a searing, gorgeously written account of life, love, illness, and death in South Africa. With exquisite prose, formal innovation, and a masterful command of storytelling, Ntshanga illustrates how some young people navigated the dusk that followed the dawn of freedom in South Africa and humanizes the casualties of the Mbeki government's fatal policies on HIV & AIDS."—Naomi Jackson, Poets & Writers SynopsisHeralded in the author's native South Africa as "the hottest novel of the year," The Reactive is a clear-eyed and compassionate depiction of a young HIV+ man grappling with the