Rarely does a novel live up to its pre-publication hype. But Mackenzie Ford’s “Clouds Beneath the Sun” (Doubleday, 2009) does just that.Crisp and compelling, this 448-page novel set in pre-independent Kenya is a skillful weft of history, archeology and paleontology, religion, passion and murder. ...
I didn't really care for this book. I didn't like the characters or what they did. I didn't like some of their relationships with each other. I didn't like how Sam's sister talked so graphically about her sex life with her brother. I guess I could not imagine doing such a thing.I recently rea...
I think we are about ready to begin, if you’d all like to sit down.”Eleanor stood on the low stage in front of the gentle rake of seats in the main lecture hall in the Royal College in Nairobi. With her silver hair in the tightest of chignons, her crisp white shirt, and her wrap-over khaki skirt,...
Five of us celebrated his birthday: Will himself, of course, though he didn’t know too much about it; Sam; me; Lottie—who was still with us, babysitter in chief—and Whisky, a small Highland terrier puppy who was Will’s first birthday present. Sam, Lottie, and I shared a bottle of Scotch and sang ...
