The Woman Next Door
The Woman Next Door by Yewande Omotoso is a novel set in South Africa in a neighborhood where two older women, one black, one white, live next door to each other. They have both recently lost their husbands and circumstances bring them together even though they have always hated each other.
Omotoso’s writing is so subtle you hardly realize you are unearthing the deep pains that reside in a country so long fractured by apartheid. Powerful, funny, incisive and honest. A great read.