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Columns::September 3, 2002
Weekly Reader
Memoir details life inside South Africa
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$26
National Geographic Society |
Written by UGA law student Jason Carter, Power Lines takes readers inside a South Africa that few outsiders see: a land where Western luxury and grinding poverty exist side by side in mutual incomprehension, a society striving to transcend its long history of apartheid and racial mistrust and build an equitable democracy where blacks and whites can co-exist.
Carter was a teenager when he first visited Africa with his grandfather, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, in 1987. He has since returned to Africa as a representative of the Carter Center and, most recently, as a Peace Corps volunteer in Lochiel, a South African town near the Swaziland border.
In this memoir of his years as a Peace Corps volunteer, Carter paints a portrait that is at once heartbreaking and hopeful of a beautiful and rich country, its turbulent history, its colorful customs and the people he came to teach--and ended up being taught by. Amid deprivation and despair, he finds everywhere a spirit of reaching out, of striving, of friendship and community that can break down even racial barriers as deeply entrenched as South Africa’s.
Sometimes shocking, often funny and always observant, Power Lines is the chronicle of an idealistic young man learning to navigate the borders that cut through all aspects of South African life. |
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