The Promise: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)WINNER OF THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZEA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE On her deathbed, Rachel Swart makes a promise to Salome, the familys Black maid. This promise will divide the familyespecially her children: Anton, the golden boy; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by feelings of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over thirty years, the dwindling Swart family remains haunted by the unmet promise, just as their