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He Sleeps

He Sleeps

Author(s): Reginald McKnight

Location(s): Senegal

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Contemporary

Bertrand, a young African-American anthropologist, has ostensibly come to Senegal to do field research. In truth, he left his home in Denver to gain a fresh perspective on his troubled marriage. Struggling to fit in with his new Senegalese family–Alaine, his wife Kene, and their young daughter–Bertrand finds himself, for the first time in his life, haunted by surreal and increasingly violent dreams. His waking hours are no less sinister; unwittingly, it seems, Bertrand has become caught in the tension–sexual and otherwise–building between the married couple.

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