Drink the Bitter Root : A Writer's Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa Bruce Grenville Evoking Joan Didion’s The Year

Evoking Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking and Rachel Cusk’s A Life’s Work

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MED078000-MEDICAL / Public Health

ISBN: 9781998444168

0 in - 396 pp

Drink the Bitter Root : A Writer's Search for Justice and Redemption in Africa Bruce Grenville Evoking Joan Didion’s The YearDescription Set across Africa, this is a deeply engaging investigation of trauma, justice and the redemptive powers of imagination from an internationally acclaimed author. Drink the Bitter Root is a provocative, emotionally charged account of one writer's travels in sub Saharan Africa. Haunted by the 1993 murder of a Somali teenager by Canadian soldiers in what became known as the Somalia affair, and long fascinated by the "dark continent," Gary