The Cherokee perspective: A novel of ambition and dislocation USA
Beyond the Door of No Return
Location(s): Senegal
Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
Era(s): Looking back 200 years
1806. The renowned botanist Michel Adanson is dying. His last word is a woman’s name: Maram. But who was she?
Searching for the answer, Adanson’s daughter discovers a journal of his youthful travels in Senegal, which tells a story of wild adventure and impossible desires. It reveals how he heard of a young woman sold into slavery who did the impossible and returned. How he became obsessed with finding her, whatever the cost. And how a man who longed to solve the mysteries of natural instead found himself grappling with the impulses of the heart.
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