The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Bucyrus Telegraph Forum We always have a choice

We always have a choice in how we react to the circumstances of our lives

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The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Bucyrus Telegraph Forum We always have a choiceWINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the family's Black maid. This promise will divide the family especially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by feelings of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over thirty years, the dwindling Swart family remains haunted by the unmet promise, just as their