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One Man's Journey to Find His Roots
University of California Press
June 2006
344 pages
ISBN: 0520243986
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
David Houze was twenty-six and living in a single room
occupancy hotel in Atlanta when he discovered that three
little girls in an old photo he'd seen years earlier were
actually his sisters. The girls had been left behind in
South Africa when Houze and his mother fled the country in
1966, at the height of apartheid, to start a new life in
Meridian, Mississippi, with Houze's American father. This
revelation triggers a journey of self-discovery and
reconnection that ranges from the shores of South Africa to
the dirt roads of Mississippi--and back. Gripping, vivid,
and poignant, this deeply personal narrative uses the
unraveling mystery of Houze's family and his quest for
identity as a prism through which to view the tumultuous
events of the civil rights movement in Mississippi and the
rise and fall of apartheid in South Africa. Twilight People
is a stirring memoir that grapples with issues of family,
love, abandonment, and ultimately, forgiveness and
reconciliation. It is also a spellbinding detective
story--steeped in racial politics and the troubled history
of two continents--of one man's search for the truth behind
the enigmas of his, and his mother's, lives.
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