Nature Lessons
Brasfield, Lynette
A first-rate, beautifully-written novel about an emigre living in the States who goes back to her native South Africa to look for her missing mother--a fictional debut that will be a draw both to critics and to readers of fine, accessible fiction
Set against a backdrop of South Africa's troubled history, natural beauty, and complex contemporary society, "Nature Lessons" is a riveting story of a forty-year-old woman, Kate Jensen, struggling to...