God's Waiting Room

CASEY GOLOMSKI is an associate professor of anthropology and women's and gender studies at the University of New Hampshire in Durham and lives in Medford, Massachusetts. He is the author of Funeral Culture: AIDS, Work, and Cultural Change in an African Kingdom.

"A profoundly beautiful exploration of what decline and dilapidation mean for those whose lives were largely lived in compact with racial separation." (The Johannesburg Review of Books) "There is nothing frail or distant in God’s Waiting Room. We are pressed up against stories—some hard, some wanting—and invited in. Casey Golomski masterfully collapses the priorities and politics of past, present, and future into the workings of the everyday, with a closeness and lyrical attention to form." - Todd Meyers (author of All That Was Not Her) "A delightful surprise of a book! This is a tale of big-hearted patients and staff, racism, and eldercare in post-apartheid South Africa. Placed within the context of the country's history of white supremacy, these subtle and moving stories of patients in the present day being sustained by grace offer a striking portrait of our shared humanity despite racial and other differences." - Theresa Brown (author of Healing: When a Nurse Becomes a Patient)

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