2008, Brilliance Audio
10 cds, 12 hours
$36.95
368 pgs.
Written for adults
Rating: 4/Liked it a lot
Setting: Contemporary Boston and Papua New Guinea
OSS: A young, female journalist risks her life tramping through the tropical rainforest of Papua New Guinea following a tenuous clue about her dead hero.
1st Sentence: "The black waters of Elobi Creek show no sign of a current It is another dead waterway, Marika tells herself, one that will breed only mosquitoes and crocodiles. Another waterway that somehow reflects -- in the darkness of the water, in its stillness -- all of her failings."
I certainly had no idea the direction of the plot when I began this book. Marika Vecera, a talented 33-year old journalist who has seen horrible things - genocide, torture, rape, unbelievable despair - in all sorts of countries around the world, lives, herself, in despair, never allowing herself any happiness. When she becomes involved in writing a biography of journalist Robert Lewis, whom she has idolized her whole adult life, she begins a journey through the incredible, dense jungles of Papua New Guinea....a journey that helps her emerge from her despair to begin to understand and appreciate her own life.
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