Casting With A Fragile Thread
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Casting with a Fragile Thread
"A comfortable suburban housewife and mother, Wendy Kann believes she has put her volatile childhood in colonial Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe - behind her. Then one Sunday morning comes a terrible phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, has been killed on a lonely road in Zambia. Suddenly unable to ignore the pull of the past, Kann must now return to Africa." "Kann's is a personal journey, set against a backdrop as exotic as it is desolate. Casting back to a privileged colonial childhood of mansions and servants, her story moves through a young adulthood marked by her father's death, her mother's mental illness, and the viciousness of Zimbabwe's bloody civil war. Later, even as she finds herself bewildered by the incongruous sophistication of Manhattan, Kann falls in love, marries, and starts her own family. Not until she is confronted by the vulnerability of the small child her sister has left behind does Kann feel compelled to return to a continent that in so many ways has defined her life."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Lust to Go
Adventure is just a book away as bestselling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations — both worldly and imagined — around the globe. From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades to suggest titles that effortlessly capture the different eras that make up a region’s unique history. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting guide includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. From fiction to memoir, poetry to history, Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust to Go takes the reader on a globetrotting adventure — no passport required.