Publisher's Synopsis
When Sheila Kohler is thirty-seven, she receives the heart-stopping news that her sister Maxine, only two years older, has been killed when her husband drove them off a deserted road in Johannesburg. Stunned by the news, she immediately flies back to South Africa, the country of her birth, determined to find answers. There, Sheila is forced to reckon with her brother-in-law's history of violence, and the lingering effects of her and Maxine's most unusual childhood - one marked by death, and the misguided love of their mother.
