The Wanderers

Across countries and decades, The Wanderers weaves a captivating tapestry of human lives, exploring the enduringand sometimes contradictoryduties of blood and country. Rurus father, a South African freedom fighter, was exiled to Tanzania before she was born, leaving Ruru and her mother to fend for themselves in the township they called home. So when a fatal bus accident claims her mothers life, Ruru is adrift. Haunted by her mothers absence, another loss sits heavy on Rurus heart: that of her father, who never returned to the family, or country, he claimed to love. When she learns of his passing, Ruru grieves for the man she never knew, and the answers she would never find. She seeks solace in Tanzania, where she strikes up an unlikely friendship with her fathers widow, a Rwandan refugee named Efuoa. Efuoa gifts Ruru her fathers journals, and as she reads, she begins to piece together the fragments of a complicated life of deep love, shifting identity, small triumphs and haunting disappointments.