Book review: ties that bind: race and the politics of friendship in South Africa edited by Shannon Walsh and Jon Soske

In Ties That Bind: Race and the Politics of Friendship in South Africa, editors Shannon Walsh and Jon Soske bring together contributors to investigate the intimacies and complicities that friendship can crystallise in the context of the histories of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa. With the volume focusing on the role that friendship can play in both dismantling and constructing difference, this is a significant and necessary intervention in the topic of friendship and race relations in South Africa, find Mantė Vertelytė and Sarita Fae Jarmack.