LAWRENCE FEUCHTWANGER: SKIN
SUNDAY, 4 OCTOber 2026 | DOORS AT 14:30, READING FROM 15:00
THIS IS A GIFT ECONOMY EVENT
Lawrence Feuchtwanger will read from his novel, Skin (Night Forest Press, 2026), a story of forbidden love, loss and violence across the racial divide in apartheid South Africa. “Vivid, raw and charged with emotion, Skin is a searing, poetic journey into the mind of a boy coming of age in the harsh moral terrain of apartheid South Africa. This unflinching novel is a testament to the relentless ache of a young soul caught between first love and awakening desire, racial guilt and inherited privilege, friendship and betrayal in a divided world.” (Arianna Dagnino)
The books will be available for purchase — or you can buy it online.
Praise for “Skin”
Backgrounded in the Holocaust and foregrounded in pre-Mandela’s apartheid South Africa, the depth of self-awareness of the caught-in-limbo adolescent, draws us along. This book, though set in another era, is still so relevant today where racism remains strong. Skin is such a fine, sensitive, pertinent read.
Naomi Beth Wakan, inaugural poet laureate of Nanaimo
Vivid, raw and charged with emotion, Skin is a searing, poetic journey into the mind of a boy coming of age in the harsh moral terrain of apartheid South Africa. This unflinching novel is a testament to the relentless ache of a young soul caught between first love and awakening desire, racial guilt and inherited privilege, friendship and betrayal in a divided world. In encounters charged with longing, anger and shame, he confronts the fractures of a society built on separation, where love is shadowed by history and even intimacy cannot escape the colour of skin.
Arianna Dagnino, author of The Afrikaner. A Novel (Guernica, Toronto)
Surrounded by memorable characters and set in the vivid landscape of South Africa, Lawrence Feuchtwanger paints the stark reality of racism. Skin, paradoxical, loving and topical, celebrates and indicts humanity.
Ingrid Rose, A Woman Re/Members the Body: a memoir through essays & other stories
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