by Susan Minot
"Thirty Girls" by Susan Minot is a gripping and heart-breaking novel that tackles one of the most despicable men in contemporary human history: Joseph Kony.Contrasting the life of an Ugandan victim of Kony (amongst many other girls) with that of a Western woman travelling and researching works very ...
This is one of those books that's sold as a story of atrocities in a little-known country, but that actually focuses on the mundane angst of a visiting American.Jane is a 38-year-old journalist from New York, who travels to Uganda to recover from a failed marriage. She soon meets the much younger Ha...