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Audie Prize Finalist, Literary Fiction, 2014 Botswana, 1976: Isaac Muthethe considers he is deceased. Smuggled over the boundary from South Africa in a hearse, he awakens protected in dust, looking at blue sky and the facial skin of White Dog. Far from dead, he is, for the first time, in a country without apartheid. A medical scholar in South Africa, he was obligated to flee after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Pressure. Walking along the road into Gaborone, Botswana's capital, White Dog pursuing close behind, the opportunity encounter with an old college acquaintance changes the span of Isaac's life. Amen, an associate of the ANC, the South African resistance movements, invites Isaac to stay along with his family. Petrified of deportation and motivated to find work, he swears he'll stay simply for a few days. He pieces out to find work and is also hired by a young American woman, Alice Mendelssohn, who is residing in Botswana with her hubby, Lawrence. A year later, her matrimony a clear shell, Alice cause on the work-related trip to the great bush that she loves-alternately austere and lush, with light that blinds-leaving her home in the good care of her new gardener, Isaac. It is upon this trip that she fits Ian, an expert on the Kung San and a rebellious, untamable man 20 years her older, with whom she imagines a very different future. Coming back home, Alice discovers Isaac absent and White Dog waiting loyally at the end of the drive, dehydrated and malnourished. When she goes into search of Isaac, what she finds out changes her life.