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Byline: Genevieve Bahrenburg
Out of Africa come two gripping accounts of young girls growing up on a continent in conflict. In When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race (Hyperion), journalist Judith Stone chronicles the life of Sandra Laing, who was born with black features to white Afrikaner parents at the height of South African apartheid. Shuttled between two identities-at the age of ten she is forcibly removed from her all-white school by armed, khaki-uniformed policemen-she overcomes playground persecution, spousal abuse, abject poverty, and family disownment in her ...