Winner of the Booker Prize 2021, The Promise by Damon Galgut is the story of a White South African family in crisis. The Swarts gather for Ma’s funeral but the younger generation Anton and Amor detest everything the family stands for including their false promises to the Black woman who worked her whole life for them. Salome was promised her own home and land and yet decades have passed and the promise has gone unfulfilled. The Promise is a sharp tale of emotional truths that hit home hard.