Winner of the BABRA award for Best Novel of the Year.
“Marcella D‘Souza is a wonderful invention, a latter day Candide. Vivid, precise and fast-paced …brilliantly prescient.”
—Suzanne Ruta, New York Times Book Review
Read an excerpt from A Girl from Zanzibar.
Hugh Fuller, a high flying aid expert, lands dazed in the West African state of Kangaba. His life of perpetual travel in the unreal atmosphere of international finance has separated him from his family and left him confused in time and place. [more]
Read an excerpt from Written on a Stranger's Map.
The narrator, John Meddows, is the Deputy Director of Rural Planning in an unnamed African republic. The novel spans only one day, but that day encompasses a long mental journey. [more]
Read an excerpt from Horizontal Hotel.
“Beautifully written, completely absorbing, Love and Fatigue in America shares with Alice Munro’s The View from Castle Rock an approach to memoir that’s as subtle and resonant as the best fiction, and with Daniel Mendelsohn’s The Lost a brilliantly original structure. As Roger King maps the story of one man’s illness all across America onto the body politic, he manages to illuminate as few others have the way we live now.” -- Andrea Barrett.
“Roger King has written a subtle, profound, often very funny memoir about his odyssey across America in search of love and good health. It's a book about illness, loss and displacement that somehow manages to be disquieting and delightful.” -- Joan Wickersham.
The above comments were based on readings of the unrevised manuscript of Love and Fatigue in America.
Read an excerpt from Love and Fatigue in America.
