Hello to the Cannibals: A NovelHarper Collins, 13.10.2009 - 688 Seiten At first, all Lily Austin knows about 19th–century explorer Mary Kingsley is that, 100 years before, she was the first white woman to venture into the heart of Africa. But as Lily begins reading about Mary Kingsley, she becomes more and more fascinated – and discovers in Mary a kindred spirit. In her own life, Lily feels trapped – on the one hand, she craves family and intimate connection; on the other hand, she has no healthy or satisfying role models. Consequently, as she nears graduation from the University of Virginia, she finds herself uncertain about what to do with her life. As she researches Mary's life – she has begun writing a play about her – Lily comes to witness Mary's incredible bravery and startling originality, qualities that prove inspirational to Lily, whose own bravery is required as she attempts to navigate dysfunctional and destructive relationships with her young husband, her extended family – and a legacy of abuse dating back to her childhood. |
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... whole city will be paralyzed, he says, fretting, muttering at the closed window on the passenger side in the front seat. It will all look as though it has been encased inside glass, and no one will venture out to go to a play, if the ...
... whole vio- lent wrack and turmoil of the play, even as she understands that none of it is like life as life is, now. Sitting in Ronda Seiver's living room, she experi- ences a terrible dread of the particulars of existence: the world ...
... whole ugly episode being an event over which she had possessed some kind of con- trol , something she sensed and then invited . For wasn't she pleased to sit there under his admiring adult gaze ? Didn't she luxuriate in his appreciation ...
... whole experience of the previous night , beginning with the panic over the prospect of harm coming to her parents , is being called forth now , a threat . Life as she has always known it hangs in precarious balance : if it comes to ...
... whole rest of the world . But she turns and smiles at Ronda and says what she knows will be acceptable under the circumstances ; she imagines her own soul to be an expanse of drifting sand under an empty sky . Later , she paints this ...