Eve Fairbanks

Eve Fairbanks is a former political writer for The New Republic. Her work focuses on change: in cities, countries, landscapes, morals, values, and our ideas of ourselves.
She has been published in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Guardian, among other outlets.
Born in Washington, DC, and raised in Virginia, she’s lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, for thirteen years. The Inheritors is her debut.

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The Inheritors

A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping and exquisite look at what really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy.

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