We Are Not of This World: A Novel, by Mulanga Mbedzi

Lisa, an artist deeply moved by the housing crisis in her city, is desperate to make meaningful
art while also under the pressure to make a living. Using visual art as her medium, she
documents abandoned buildings and people displaced by policy and profit in the city of
Johannesburg. But when heartbreak dismantles the emotional scaffolding she built around
love, she is forced inward, confronting the hollow spaces she has long avoided.

Khanya was groomed to inherit his family's empire, a life carefully mapped out by a father
invested in power and preservation. All Khanya knows about being a man is that he must
protect his family's legacy. But as the fractures in Johannesburg widen, and as land, housing,and dignity become battlegrounds, Lisa forces him to confront how deeply implicated he isin a system he has never questioned.