02376cam a2200313 i 4500 1164596909 TxAuBib 20170801120000.0 170109s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2016043197 9780399575068 hardback 0399575065 hardback (OCoLC)961002531 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BDX OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ CHY TxAuBib rda Marais, Bianca, 1976-, author. Hum if you don't know the words / Bianca Marais. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2017. 420 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred. Until the Soweto Uprising, in which a protest by black students ignites racial conflict, alters the fault lines on which their society is built, and shatters their worlds when Robin's parents are left dead and Beauty's daughter goes missing. After Robin is sent to live with her loving but irresponsible aunt, Beauty is hired to care for Robin while continuing the search for her daughter. In Beauty, Robin finds the security and family that she craves, and the two forge an inextricable bond through their deep personal losses. But Robin knows that if Beauty finds her daughter, Robin could lose her new caretaker forever, so she makes a desperate decision with devastating consequences. Her quest to make amends and find redemption is a journey of self-discovery in which she learns the harsh truths of the society that once promised her protection."-- Provided by publisher. 20170801. Apartheid South Africa Fiction. Families South Africa Fiction. South Africa History Soweto Uprising, 1976 Fiction. South Africa History 1961-1994 Fiction. TXKIP