Mating
Author: Norman Rush
The first major novel by the author of the critically-acclaimed short story collection Whites.A comedy of manners on the grandest scale, the story revolves around two Americans on the loose (one of them on the prowl) in developing Africa. It follows a woman’s search for a worthy male, which takes her from her academic anthropology studies to a utopian matriarchal community….Read More
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