Judith Stone talks about When She Was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race.
This is the story of a black daughter born to white parents, the crushing power of an oppressive state, and the resilience of the human spirit. Stone did extensive interviews about the true story of Sandra Laing, a woman whose life was torn apart by prejudice in South Africa and healed by love- Book Passage
Bio
Judith Stone
Judith Stone is an award winning journalist and contributing editor to O Magazine. Stone lives in New York City and is the author of Light Elements: Essays on Science from Gravity to Levity.
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Stone's honest approach to her subject, Sandra Laing is inspiring in that it resists the temptation to 'frame' the story of Sandra Laing with a happy Hollywood answer or a simple lesson like: this is the moral of the story according to me. Stone allows for true biographical complexity and grayness in South Africa's killing fields of shame and ignorance. Brava, Ms. Stone!