What is the theme in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith?

Another theme in the book is atonement and forgiveness. Some of the more reflective voices in Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 express a prayer or hope that what LA citizens experienced throughout the unrest will give way to a future reconciliation and community harmony and peace among different ethnic groups. It is the "room" that Reginald Denny plans for his future house, a room that is "just gonna be people," where a person's race will not matter. It is the hope, too, of Otis Chandler, former publisher of the LA Times. He believes that someday LA can become "a safe, pleasant city, for everybody, regardless of where they live or what they do or what the color of their skin is." The new harmony would be the community's atonement for the past, and it would have to involve forgiveness.