A black woman born to white parents at the height of official apartheid in South Africa describes growing up in a white family, persecuted beacuse of her dark skin and frizzy hair, her reclassification as "coloured," elopement with a black man, estrangement from her parents, life in a poor all-black township, and eventual reunion with her mother after the 1994 end of apartheid. 35,000 first printing.