In post-apartheid Durban, Asma has built a careful life—devoted mother, dutiful wife, her youthful rebellion long buried. Then she sees Ghaarith in the Botanical Gardens, and thirty years collapse.
In apartheid South Africa, their love was forbidden twice over: she was classified Indian, he Coloured, both Muslim but separated by the state's cruel taxonomy. When Ghaarith vanished in 1976, Asma thought he'd chosen the struggle over her. She married another man, had children, learned to live with the ache of not knowing.
The sequel to Home Scar, this is a novel about the intimate costs of political struggle and the truths we bury to survive.