The stories in are set in South Africa during the tumultuous years of and beyond, in which the tangled histories of violence and leak into the lives of trying to make sense of what remains. Graeme Friedman plunges us into the between mother and daughter, author and his writing, student and her subject matter, psychologist and his patient through and perception, and reveals the impact of the in a post-democratic South Africa. Drawing from his years as an expert witness in political trials, Friedman delivers a collection with details, and that renders a perspective into a wounded society riven by an . is the latest offering by a who knows how to handle the hauntings of humanity with