New Book for Review: Nonfiction ‘The Human Spirit’ by Carole Eglash-Kosoff

The Human Spirit Carole Eglash-Kosoff is touring in September with her nonfiction book, The Human Spirit.

Apartheid in South Africa has now been gone more than fifteen years but the heroes of their struggle to achieve a Black majority-run democracy are still being revealed. Some individuals toiled publicly, but most worked tirelessly in the shadows to improve the welfare of the Black and Coloured populations that had been so neglected. Nelson Mandela was still in prison; clean water and sanitation barely existed; AIDS was beginning to orphan an entire generation. Meanwhile a white, Jewish, middle class woman, Helen Lieberman, joined with numerous Xhosa and other Black African women, such as Tutu, Millie, Ivy, and Zora, respectfully called Mamas, to help those most in need, often being beaten and arrested by white security police. This book tells
the story of these women and others who have spent their adult lives making South Africa a better place for those who were the country’s most disadvantaged.

Carole lives and writes in Valley Village, California. She graduated from UCLA and spent her career in business and in teaching. In 2006 her husband, mother, and brother died within a month of one another, causing her to reevaluate her life. She volunteered to work with the American Jewish World Service and was sent to South Africa to teach. She returned there a year later, having met an amazing array of men and women who had devoted their lives during the worst years of apartheid to helping the children, the elderly, and the disabled of the townships. These people cared when no one else did and their efforts continue to this day. It is their stories that needed to be told. They are apartheid’s unheralded heroes and The Human Spirit is their story.

All profits from the sale of The Human Spirit will be donated to Ikamva Labantu and other South African charities. The book is available at Amazon, Author House and Barnes & Noble on-line sites as a hardback, paperback and as an e-book.

240 pages

If you would like to review The Human Spirit, please fill out the form below or email Dorothy Thompson at thewriterslife@gmail.com. Deadline for inquiries end August 25 or until the tour is filled. Thank you!


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