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Mimosa Road
A novel of two women, two cultures, and a shadow world where people who offend Life President Mobutu Sese Seko disappear.
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Mimosa Road
A novel of two women, two cultures, and a shadow world where people who offend Life President Mobutu Sese Seko disappear.
In Kinshasa, Zaire, 1974–1975, a privileged expat and a Zairian in a simple village meet and find
themselves in close range of Mobutu’s brutality. Their stories interweave in a post-colonial world that bewilders them yet
challenges them to confront the oppression. The novel raises issues surprisingly relevant to our time and place.
Also by Ruth Linnea Whitney
Slim (SMU Press, 2003) — Angell Award (PCUSA Writer’s Guild).
Slim
A novel set in sub-Saharan Africa, exploring the search for harmony in a discordant world.
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Interested in themes of moral complexity, community, and the consequences of power? Mimosa Road brings historical circumstance into sharp personal focus.
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