Apr 16, 2012 06:53 PM EDT
The Lower River
by Dawn Raffel, Reader's Digest Editor at Large, Books
Every sentence has you on the edge of your seat in this story of a divorced American man’s move to Malawi. Theroux’s emotional acuity is as intense as the setting.
From the book: “The snake did not move — that is, it remained coiled. But then its pear-shaped head tilted, it’s yellow eyes flickered and widened, and it seemed almost imperceptibly to swell…as though it was visibly thinking.”
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