Enduring Divides: On Eve Fairbanks’s “The Inheritors”
Jean Hey considers Eve Fairbanks’s “The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning.”
Jean Hey was a journalist in South Africa before immigrating to the United States. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Plain Dealer, Chicago Tribune, Solstice Literary Magazine, The MacGuffin, and Arrowsmith Journal. She holds a dual-genre MFA in fiction and nonfiction from Bennington College and recently completed a collection of memoiristic essays about immigration and identity.
Jean Hey considers Eve Fairbanks’s “The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial Reckoning.”
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