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There Norris becomes lost in a contemplation of the forces that have shaped him, a growing paranoia about evil spirits and a steamy relationship with the marabou's beautiful, American-educated daughter. Exhausted, he ends up in a tiny village, where he is cared for by the family of a marabou, or holy man. ?" Quitting the Corps, Norris then drifts "half-bemused, half-terrified" through a series of surreal experiences punctuated by nightmarish bus rides. Recruited by the Peace Corps, he fights off malarial fever while wondering, "Am I black enough now. McKnight's first novel is set in Senegal, where Evan Norris, a restless Afro-American from Denver, has wandered to escape his comfortable middle-class existence and near-engagement to a racially aware, black American psychiatrist. Very Near Fine in Wraps: shows only the mildest rubbing very faint thumbing and a couple of barely discernible smudges at fore-edge binding square and secure text clean.
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