143pp., paperback, Teka Works Publishing, No Place, 2026

ISBN: 9781049246529

Seventeen-year-old Blue flees to South Africa with her father, an academic at Columbia University, when his blackface scandal goes viral. After a car accident they find themselves in the hands of Afrikaner minister Christo van der Merwe and his community in Orania, the white separatist town in the Northern Cape Province.

Nthato Mokgata (b. 1985) is a South African storyteller whose work spans music, film and fiction. His debut novel, Ghost in the Drum, was published in 2025. He lives in Johannesburg.

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