In her beautiful and bracing memoir about her childhood, the South African-born novelist and playwright GILLIAN SLOVO evokes a time of violent historical upheaval in her homeland. Her parents, Ruth First and Joe Slovo, were South Africa’s best- known white opponents of apartheid. Often in jail or hiding, they were heroes, but their children also endured the cost of their parents’ commitment, including the assassination of First in 1982. The pain is palpable in Slovo’s pages, but so too is her commitment to the power of activism and of words. This ongoing commitment is reflected in her most recent novel, Ten Days, and in her highly topical play, Another World: Losing Our Children to Islamic State. She will talk about her parents and about her passion for getting at the truth in her fiction.