Title: Brilliant portrayal of woman who migrates from Zanzibar
Product review: Marcella D'Souza narrates her story from her new home in Vermont. A mixed-race woman at ease everywhere in the world but at home nowhere, she flees the oppression of Zanzibar for London. There she makes a success of business and love but finds she is dogged by the sort of intgrigue she fled. When things turn bad in London she goes to Vermont and waits for the past to catch up again. Roger King provides a brilliant, vivid portrayal of Marcella who maintains a composed, lyrical and witty voice, in the face of her tragedies.The novel illuminates the world of a modern, cosmopolitan sort of immigrant and examines English and American society as it goes to the deeper questions of identity and home. I loved Marcella, and I loved this book, which will always stay with me.
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