Still Waters in Niger |
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| Author:
| Hill, Kathleen |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-5134-5 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2002 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Imprint: | TriQuarterly Books |
| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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The narrator of this book is an Irish-American woman who returns to the West African country of Niger where she had lived seventeen years earlier as the wife of an academic and the mother of three young daughters. Now she is visiting her eldest daughter, Zara, who has herself returned to Africa during a season of devastating drought and is working in a village clinic that cares for women and children suffering from starvation.
The narrator of this book is an Irish-American woman who returns to the West African country of Niger where she had lived seventeen years earlier as the wife of an academic and the mother of three young daughters. Now she is visiting her eldest daughter, Zara, who has herself returned to Africa during a season of devastating drought and is working in a village clinic that cares for women and children suffering from starvation.