When Jerry, a charismatic stranger, arrives on the farm where Stella lives, her father stays sober, and her mother begins to laugh again – but the man with the silver cross has not come to save them.
A Blow to the Head: A History of Violence
Available for pre-order. Forthcoming in June.
Following the threads that radiate out from his personal experience of violence, Du Toit traces the events and the decisions that brought him to that fateful confrontation. He is forced to confront his place and complicity in a country still traumatised by racial violence – and to ask/explore what is required by the work of healing and repair.
The Politics of Potential
The Politics of Potential examines how new scientific understandings of the developmental origins of health and disease constitute new forms of intergenerational responsibility that are racialized and gendered, and how these overlook the everyday potentialities that shape perceptions of the future in South Africa.
Moving On: short stories
Available for pre-order. Out in April 2024.
Tightly written, witty, upbeat short stories about people making new beginnings after significant losses (the death of their partners, home invasions, etc) set in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg.
Through A Dragonfly Eye: a memoir
A moving account of growing up and coming of age in mid-twentieth century South Africa. The book is full of insight and humour, a tenderness and love for her family and country shines through the pages.
The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
The Work of Repair is an ethnographic examination of the intimate relationships between laborers in the timber plantations of postapartheid South Africa, in the wake of the HIV crisis and the contentious politics of nutrition. It explores how capacity is augmented as the wounds of history are embodied and modulated.
Published under licence from Fordham University Press. Forthcoming in February 2024