Research Catalog
Casting with a fragile thread : a story of sisters and Africa
- Title
- Casting with a fragile thread : a story of sisters and Africa / Wendy Kann.
- Author
- Kann, Wendy.
- Publication
- New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2006.
- Supplementary Content
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | CT275.K327 A3 2006 | Off-site |
Holdings
Details
- Description
- 284 pages : illustrations, map; 22 cm
- Summary
- "A comfortable suburban housewife and mother, Wendy Kann believes she has put her volatile childhood in colonial Rhodesia - now Zimbabwe - behind her. Then one Sunday morning comes a terrible phone call: her youngest sister, Lauren, has been killed on a lonely road in Zambia. Suddenly unable to ignore the pull of the past, Kann must now return to Africa." "Kann's is a personal journey, set against a backdrop as exotic as it is desolate. Casting back to a privileged colonial childhood of mansions and servants, her story moves through a young adulthood marked by her father's death, her mother's mental illness, and the viciousness of Zimbabwe's bloody civil war. Later, even as she finds herself bewildered by the incongruous sophistication of Manhattan, Kann falls in love, marries, and starts her own family. Not until she is confronted by the vulnerability of the small child her sister has left behind does Kann feel compelled to return to a continent that in so many ways has defined her life."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- ISBN
- 0805079564
- LCCN
- 2005055122
- 9780805079562
- OCLC
- OCM62290611
- SCSB-5244971
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries