Twilight People: One Man's Journey to Find His Roots (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520243989)

David Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were actually his sisters. The girls had been left behind in South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country in 1966, at the height of apartheid, to start a new life in Meridian, Mississippi, with Houze's American father. This revelation triggers a journey of self-discovery and reconnection that ranges from the shores of South Africa to the dirt roads of Mississippi-and back. Gripping, vivid, and poignant, this deeply personal narrative uses the unraveling mystery of Houze's family and his quest for identity as a prism through which to view the tumultuous events of the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa. Twilight People is a stirring memoir that grapples with issues of family, love, abandonment, and ultimately, forgiveness and reconciliation. It is also a spellbinding detective story-steeped in racial politics and the troubled history of two continents-of one man's search for the truth behind the enigmas of his, and his mother's, lives.

Author: David Houze
ISBN-10: 0520243986
ISBN-13: 9780520243989
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 05/25/2006
Pages: 344
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.74w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Essence 05/01/2006 pg. 86
Booklist 05/01/2006 pg. 67
Library Journal 06/01/2006 pg. 130
Black Issues Book Review 07/01/2006 pg. 16
Black Issues Book Review 11/01/2006 pg. 29
Booklist 02/01/2007 pg. 22
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2007 pg. 1 - Strongly Recommended