23-year-old Chanda Radebe is up against a decision: he can continue to live in a shantytown of Soweto, South Africa, as an uninvolved, jobless dreamer — or join forces with the charismatic, self-destructive revolutionary David Themba, whose organization, Kusasa, though little more than a gang, aspires to be a viable alternative to South Africa’s bloated political parties. Pulling Chanda in yet another direction is his cousin Bornwell Malaba, an apprentice game ranger in a luxury safari lodge. Indifferent to politics, Bornwell wants only a life of peace in the wilderness for himself and respectable, safe conformity for Chanda. Both become increasingly unlikely when American businessman Alex Stanzis becomes lost in Soweto following a vacation at Bornwell’s lodge. The cousins try to help him after he attracts the unwelcome attention of David Themba — and get embroiled in far more than they bargained for while trying to do the decent thing. Set against the backdrop of a South Africa on the eve of its first-ever free elections, Chanda’s struggle to make a decision, Bornwell’s yearning for peace, and David’s ominous destiny converge in an elegantly simple tale of the roads that choose us. trade paperback | ISBN 9780972832175 5.25" x 8.25" 224 pp.