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An extraordinary novel of love friendship and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge DanticatEleanor Morses rich and intimate portrait of Botswana and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable is an absorbing and deeply moving storyIn apartheid South Africa in medical student Isaac Muthethe is forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force He is smuggled into Botswana where he is hired as a gardener by a young American woman Alice Mendelssohn who has abandoned her PhD studies to follow her husband to Africa When Isaac goes missing and Alice goes searching for him what she finds will change her life and inextricably bind her to this sunburned beautiful landLike the African terrain that Alice loves Morses novel is alternately austere and lush spare and lyrical She is a writer of great and wide-ranging gifts.
About the Author
Eleanor Morse is the author of Margreete's Harbor, the most recent of four novels. White Dog Fell from the Sky was a Publishers Weekly Pick of the Week; An Unexpected Forest won the 2008 Independent Book Publisher's Award for best regional fiction and the 2008 Maine Literary Award. She is on the faculty of Spalding University's School of Creative and Professional Writing and lives on a small island off the coast of Maine.
