Lament for a Silver-Eyed Woman
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In the author’s second novel, she explores uncharted fictional ground, the experience of the Peace Corps where two friends find themselves in the mountains and rain forests of Cameroon, perhaps a place of perfect hiding for the son of Cameroon’s first colonial German governor, a Nazi who could well have returned to the place of his birth to escape detection after World War II. What Mattie and Jo find leads them to their post-service trek to Beirut and to the Palestinian refugee camps where their lives are unalterably changed.
--“Good fiction on a serious subject written with a wonderfully funny voice"—New York Newsday.
LAMENT FOR A SILVER-EYED WOMAN IS POSSIBLY THE FIRST NOVEL TO COME OUT OF THE PEACE CORPS--WRITTEN BY A VOLUNTEER WITH A NARRATOR/PROTAGONIST WHO IS A VOLUNTEER. THE SETTING: CAMEROON