04613cam a2200865 4500 337441081 TxAuBib 20180127120000.0 ||||||s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307559494 0307559491 B002Z0QV7E Amazon fbfc3278-25fb-4cb0-838b-3159fba8c4f3 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 256722 OverDrive (Product ID) 107487 256722 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Marciano, Francesca. Rules of the Wild [Libby] : A Novel of Africa. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009. judaism. family. relationships. Terrorism. Friendship. Jewish. literary fiction. family life. romance. Chinese Americans. sisters. Alzheimer's. book club. contemporary fiction. Prison. immigrants. asian american. Immigration. marriage. Coming of age. Death. miracles. Adolescence. Drama. Adoption. Family relationships. psychology. Islam. grief. Contemporary. Poverty. Christianity. Literary. drugs. Christian books. realistic fiction. book club recommendations. books for women. marriage books. relationship books. alzheimers books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 1886kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fiction. Literature. HTML:A mesmerizing novel of love and nostalgia set in the vast spaces of contemporary East Africa.<br /> Romantic, often resonantly ironic, moving and wise, <b>Rules of the Wild</b> transports us to a landscape of unsurpassed beauty even as it gives us a sharp-eyed portrait of a closely knit tribe of cultural outsiders: the expatriates living in Kenya today. Challenged by race, by class, and by a longing for home, here are "safari boys" and samaritans, reporters bent on their own fame, travelers who care deeply about elephants but not at all about the people of Africa. They all know each other. They meet at dinner parties, they sleep with each other, they argue about politics and the best way to negotiate their existence in a place where they don't really belong.<br /> <br /> At the center is Esmé, a beautiful young woman of dazzling ironies and introspections, who tells us her story in a voice both passionate and self-deprecating. Against a paradoxical backdrop of limitless physical freedom and escalating civil unrest, Esmé struggles to make sense of her own place in Africa and of her feelings for the two men there whom she loves—Adam, a second-generation Kenyan who is the first to show her the wonders of her adopted land, and Hunter, a British journalist sickened by its horrors.<br /> <b>Rules of the Wild</b> evokes the worlds of Isak Dinesen, Beryl Markham, and Ernest Hemingway. It explores unforgettably our infinite desire for a perfect elsewhere, for love and a place to call home. It is an astonishing literary debut. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2018-01-27 22:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/FBF/C32/78/RulesoftheWildANovelofAfrica9780307559494.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FBFC3278-25FB-4CB0-838B-3159FBA8C4F3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/FBF/C32/78/RulesoftheWildANovelofAfrica9780307559494.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FBFC3278-25FB-4CB0-838B-3159FBA8C4F3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/FBF/C32/78/RulesoftheWildANovelofAfrica9780307559494.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=FBFC3278-25FB-4CB0-838B-3159FBA8C4F3&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)