 Her books also explore how humans as a species relate to non-human animals and to the natural world as a whole.Two of her books, "The White Family" (2002) and "My Cleaner" (2005), have racism as a central theme, dealt with as a tragedy in "The White Family" but as a comedy in "My Cleaner".In 2009 she published "My Driver", a second novel with many of the same characters as "My Cleaner", but this time set in Uganda during a time of tension with neighboring DR Congo.