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	"Chilson has written a smart and elegantly executed collection of stories that not only engage as literature but also reaffirm the ability of serious fiction to speak directly to the most urgent and baffling contemporary problems." -- The Los Angeles Times "Chilson makes a promising fiction debut with these stories about Americans and Africans... This affecting collection moves well beyond jaded ex-pat cliché and expertly balances the political and emotional realities of troubled people in troubled places." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "In this vivid and eye-opening collection, [Chilson] explores, via characters from one continent sojourning in the other, the vast political and cultural dissimilarities between Africa and America." -- Booklist "These powerful stories are distinguished by moments in which their characters find themselves confronted by the contrast between North America and Africa -- instances of startling and life altering collision." -- from the forward by Lan Samantha Chang, author of Inheritance "The towering figures of Paul Bowles and Joseph Conrad cast their shadows over these chilling stories of Africa; but Chilson writes behond their influence...You put down this book equally fascinated and infuriated -- an effect only the the best literature can achieve." -- Robert Rosenberg, author of This is not Civilization. (Published by Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, 2007) Amazon.com - Barnes & Noble - Powells Books

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"Chilson has written a smart and elegantly executed collection of stories that not only engage as literature but also reaffirm the ability of serious fiction to speak directly to the most urgent and baffling contemporary problems." -- The Los Angeles Times

"Chilson makes a promising fiction debut with these stories about Americans and Africans... This affecting collection moves well beyond jaded ex-pat cliché and expertly balances the political and emotional realities of troubled people in troubled places." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"In this vivid and eye-opening collection, [Chilson] explores, via characters from one continent sojourning in the other, the vast political and cultural dissimilarities between Africa and America." -- Booklist

"These powerful stories are distinguished by moments in which their characters find themselves confronted by the contrast between North America and Africa -- instances of startling and life altering collision." -- from the forward by Lan Samantha Chang, author of Inheritance

"The towering figures of Paul Bowles and Joseph Conrad cast their shadows over these chilling stories of Africa; but Chilson writes behond their influence...You put down this book equally fascinated and infuriated -- an effect only the the best literature can achieve." -- Robert Rosenberg, author of This is not Civilization.

(Published by Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin, 2007)

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"Chilson's book, as vivid in places as a nightmare, has all the revelatory power of the early explorers' narratives, with their shreds of myth and rumor snatched from the borders of terra incognita." -- The New York Times Book Review

"Chilson's literary chronicle of bush-taxi travel...goes beyond car and body parts to reveal life in a country speeding into modernity." -- Utne Reader

"Chilson is expert at getting readers to shake their heads in disbelief, letting tales of backwardness and frustration spill forth as the bush taxi continues to lurch foward." -- Booklist

(Published by University of Georgia Press, 1999)

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