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"With The Reactive, [Ntshanga] has created an immersive and powerful portrait of drug use, community, and health issues by exploring what it was like to be young, black, South African, and HIV positive in the early aughts." - VICE"A seminal work confronting [a] period in our country's history." - The Sunday Independent "Elegiac . . . radiating with understanding and compassion." - City Press"With a fine lyricism of style Ntshanga weaves a story both filled with ennui and weird purpose. And if that sounds unlikely, it is a feat he pulls off with brilliance." - The New AgeFrom the winner of the PEN International New Voices Award comes the story of Lindanathi, a young HIV man grappling with the death of his brother, for which he feels unduly responsible.