cover image Home Ground

Home Ground

Lynn Freed. Penguin Books, $7.95 (288pp) ISBN 978-0-14-008948-6

For protagonist Ruth Frank, home ground is a small town in South Africa in the 1950s, where her family occupies a doubly alienated positionas Jews in gentile society and whites in an overwhelmingly black country. PW noted that Freed is ""perceptive'' in her dialogue and depictions of characters. (September)