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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Winner of the 2019 Orange Book Prize, The Impatients is a powerful novel about three women living in Cameroon who have grown impatient with the unrelenting oppression-patriarchy, polygamy, and the perpetual cry for patience-that dominates their lives"--
In North Cameroon, well-to-do young Ramla is torn from her true love and wed to a manipulative older man. Safira, her co-wife, juggles envy and empathy for this new bride with disappointment in the...
Author
Series
Jade del Cameron novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
"In 1919, when most women only dream of adventure, Jade del Cameroon lives it. After growing up tough on a New Mexico ranch and driving a ambulance on the front lines of World War I, she can fire a rifle with deadly precision and stare down man maddened by shell shock. Still suffering trauma from the Great War, she sets off for Africa determined to fulfill a man's dying wish, never expecting to become involved in murder." "With his last breath, Jade's...
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