Shore Lit Book Talk: Lauren Francis-Sharma, Casualties of Truth

Friday, October 3, 2025 @ 6 pm

Academy Art Museum, Easton

FREE

Opening with the death of a white police officer in 1996 Johannesburg, Casualties of Truth alternates between Prudence Wright’s past and her present. A successful professional turned stay-at-home mom, Prudence doesn’t like to think about the summer she spent in South Africa twenty years ago, observing the country’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings as a young law student. But when an acquaintance from Johannesburg tracks her down, she finds she doesn’t have a choice. Taut and literary, the novel is “a brutal history lesson in the guise of a thriller,” writes the New York Times Book Review. Francis-Sharma will be in conversation with Shore Lit Founder and Director Kerry Folan. For questions about accessibility for this event, please email Kerry Folan at easternshorelit@gmail.com.