Her ex-husband was the one who pulled the trigger.
The doctors determined she didnt even need surgery.
They stitched her up and seven days later, she was back at work.
For a lot of people, that incident alone could be enough to sustain a book.
He fits in nowhere; even his black grandfather half-jokingly calls him massa.
But Noahs not the main character in his own storyhis mother is the constant.
All the while, Noah manages to tell the story of South Africa itself.
By the end, you get the sense that Noahs been numbed by it all.
This book seems to hold the answer: Hes a master of self-preservation.
