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Atlantic Monthly

9780802163783

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Casualties of Truth

Fast-paced, engaging and surprising, Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Casualties of Truth examines the legacy of apartheid through the life of a lawyer whose long-ago summer in Johannesburg comes back to haunt her.

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Review of ‘Casualties of Truth’

What happens when the past does not resolve, does not leave? In Lauren Francis-Sharma’s Casualties of Truth, Prudence Wright’s seemingly peaceful present is interrupted by a figure from her past who reminds her of the events of a summer she’d long buried in memory.

As the novel opens in 2018, Prudence and her husband, Davis,…

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