BOOKS - Disturbance-Loving Species: A Novella and Stories
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Disturbance-Loving Species: A Novella and Stories
Author: Peter Chilson
Year: January 1, 2007
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 744 KB
Language: English
Year: January 1, 2007
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 744 KB
Language: English
Peter Chilson's fiction debut delivers a fascinating, heart-wrenching view of modern African culture, filtered through the lens of the West. In a novella and four short stories, Chilson, who traveled to Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a freelance journalist, uses a phrase borrowed from biology to point out how our "disturbance-loving species" thrives in the most chaotic, seemingly unlivable situations. As this remarkable collection explores the experiences of Americans struggling to cope with the political and social upheaval of life in Africa and of Africans acclimating to life in the United States, Chilson captures in vivid detail the strange, exhilarating frisson between cultures.
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