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Goodbye South Africa
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General FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $31.99
Publisher: Atmosphere Press
Published: Aug 25 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In 1966, thirteen-year-old Annabelle Bradlow is uprooted from Johannesburg and thrust into suburban New York when her father, a Jewish doctor, flees the mounting dangers of apartheid. The move promises safety, but instead delivers disorientation, isolation, and a quiet unraveling Annabelle cannot control.
As she struggles to find her footing between cultures, expectations, and a fractured home life, Annabelle searches for certainty wherever she can find it-family, faith, even reinvention. But belonging proves elusive, and the consequences of misplaced trust are devastating.
Spanning continents and coming of age against the backdrop of political and personal upheaval, Annabelle's journey becomes a question of survival: not just where she can live, but who she can become when everything familiar has been stripped away.
Gillian Lynn Katz grew up during the Apartheid era in South Africa and immigrated to New York as a teenager in 1966. Goodbye South Africa is the story of immigrants, like her family, who fled political unrest in South Africa and rebuilt their lives in the United States.
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