Twilight People One Man&39s Journey To Find His Roots [Hardcover]

David Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were actually his sisters. The girls had been left behind in South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country in 1966, at the height of apartheid, to start a new life in Meridian, Mississippi, with Houze's American father. This revelation triggers a journey of self-discovery and reconnection that ranges from the shores of South Africa to the dirt roads of Mississippiand back. Gripping, vivid, and poignant, this deeply personal narrative uses the unraveling mystery of Houze's family and his quest for identity as a prism through which to view the tumultuous events of the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa.Twilight Peopleis a stirring memoir that grapples with issues of family, love, abandonment, and ultimately, forgiveness and reconciliation. It is also a spellbinding detective storysteeped in racial politics and the troubled history of two continentsof one man's search for the truth behind the enigmas of his, and his mother's, lives.

David Houzeis a graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism.

In this wrenching yet redemptive family history, David Houze plunges into the tangle of race, class, and color on two continents. His quest solves a mystery at the center of his own heritage, and for the rest of us provides a memorable rumination on identity itself. Samuel Freedman, author ofUpon This Rock: The Miracles of a Black Church

David Houze is a persistent and brave explorer.Twilight Peopleinvestigates the darkest heart of racism in America and South Africa, and is as painful as it is deeply revealing about the complexities of racial identity on two continents. Neil Henry, author ofPearl's Secret: A Black Man's Search for His White Family

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