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"Anthropologist Bertrand Milworth has ostensibly come to Senegal to do field research. But in truth, he has left his home in Denver to gain a fresh perspective on his marriage, which is troubled by an unusual sexual and racial conundrum. Struggling to fit in with his new Senegalese family - Alaine, his wife, Kene, and their young daughter - Bertrand is, for the the first time in his life, haunted by surreal and increasingly violent dreams. His waking hours are no less sinister; unwittingly, it seems, Bertrand has become caught in the tension - sexual and otherwise - building between the…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2002Picador USA · 210 pages · 9780312421045
- Other · English · 2001H. Holt · 210 pages · 9780805048285
African American anthropologistsMarried peopleFictionAmericansAfrican American menAfrican americans, fictionMarried people, fictionFiction, psychological
