A comedy of manners: short stories set around USA
The Gravity of Sunlight

Location(s): Uganda, Kampala
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): 1970s
Prizewinning story writer Rosa Shand makes an impressive debut with a novel lushly set in the tumultuous Africa of the 1970s. Agnes is a dissatisfied wife who has come with her husband, a minister, to teach in Kampala, Uganda. The disintegration of their marriage and Agnes’ ecstatic affair is played out against this dangerously unsettled atmosphere, taking the reader on a sensuous and unforgettable journey.
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