Ruth Linnea Whitney
lived for 2 years in sub-Saharan Africa. She has volunteered in far corners of the developing world with her husband, an orthopaedist. She received her M.A. in English from the University of Nevada (Reno), & has taught English as a Second Language at Peninsula College in Port Townsend, Washington. She is now at work on a memoir.

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ISBN: 087074478X · 2003 Southern Methodist University Press

Set in a small, interior African country at the start of the AIDS epidemic, Ruth Linnea Whitney's debut novel tells of a modern world in post-colonial chaos and of an older Africa rich in magic and wisdom. The story of these two worlds and how they are linked by AIDS is told in the voices of eight--a divorced young American orthopaedist, a 58-year-old Scottish gynecologist, an idealistic young African journalist, a short-sighted president of a backward country, an ancient healer, a feckless father ruined by greed, and a boy of special gifts whose prophetic drawings haunt the novel's heart.

Read a review of this book by Rebecca Brown, The Editor.