story link Juggling Truths to Dow's first two novels and suggest that girls and women are able to develop their strength through education and independent thinking. Dow approaches her analysis of social complexity using a variety of interventions, recognising that there are no simple solutions. Juggling Truths was a nominee for the Percy FitzPatrick Prize in the young adults category in 2006. Dow's 2007 book The Heavens May Fall deals with identities in transition from traditional society to a modern globalised world. In Dow's eyes, society is constantly changing; as a result, custom, gender, identity, language, social construction, and institutions are fluid. A reflection of Dow's own life, the story tells of the transition from no paved roads to indoor plumbing and how diamond wealth provided access to education, health care, and utilities. The book is dedicated to her three children, reiterating how perceptions about them have transformed, as they are African, but also share a more complex identity because their father was a US national. In the time the story unfolds they would have been seen by society as foreign. The story tells of Naledi, born before Botswana's modernisation and takes place in the time of Dow's challenge to the nationality law. As a lawyer, Naledi represents vulnerable women and children who need arbitration or legal assistance. She takes a case of a teenaged rape victim and exposes the complicity of the male-dominated legal system, which dismissed the case without a hearing. Though the case is unresolved, the accused was ordered to undergo an HIV test, because his victim had been exposed to unprotected sex, which underscores societal changes and fluidity. Maleness did not give the accused the privilege or power to avoid the test in a country where the legal system has safeguards to include protection for women, despite the fact that the legal system ultimately failed Naledi. Dow contributed to the book Schicksal Afrika (Fate of Africa) compiled by the former German President Horst Köhler in 2010, which collected works by well-known authors. Her essay focused on colonialism and the distrust Africa has developed for its own wisdom. That year, she also published Saturday Is for Funerals with Max Essex, a Harvard professor and AIDS researcher. The book is written as a conversation between Dow and Essex. She begins each chapter, telling a true story of a person affected by HIV/AIDS, which is followed by Essex's commentary