Amy Biehls Last Home

In 1993, white American Fulbright scholar Amy Biehl was killed in a racially motivated attack near Cape Town, after spending months working to promote democracy and womens rights in South Africa. The ironic circumstances of her death generated enormous international publicity and yielded one of South Africas most heralded stories of postapartheid reconciliation. Amys parents not only established a humanitarian foundation to serve the black township where she was killed, but supported amnesty for her killers and hired two of the young men to work for the Amy Biehl Foundation. The Biehls were hailed as heroes by Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu, and many others in South Africa and the United Statesbut their path toward healing was neither quick nor easy. Granted unrestricted access to the Biehl familys papers, Steven Gish brings Amy and the Foundation to life in ways that have eluded previous authors. He is the first to place Biehls story in its full historical context, while also presenting a gripping portrait of this remarkable young woman and the aftermath of her death across two continents.