Encompassing many different visions of Africa, the stories in this comprehensive collection feature characters struggling to survive grinding poverty, tyrannical governments, cultural upheavals, and disintegrating relationships.
Reflecting a continent with a tragic history, "An African Quilt" d[...]
Tired of being a cook and housekeeper in her married sister's home, an unmarried Lulu Bett spontaneously accepts a whimsical marriage proposal during a visit from a peripatetic brother-in-law in the title novella in a collection of short fiction by the early twentieth-century American writer. Origin[...]