Title: Leaves much to be desired.
Product review: The promising premise and beautiful marketing of this novel are not ultimately fulfilled. Instead the reader is forced to experience contemporary Africa through the eyes of a selfish, pathetic Italian woman whose constant complaints about white priviledge never transform into a coherant critique of either whites in Africa in general or the main character in particular. Her dependancy upon the men in her life and her melodramatic reaction to her own bad choices do not make her endearing but annoying. Nevertheless, I read the entire novel, in the vain hope that it would show me more of the complexities of Africa -- which it did not.
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