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For #readingafrica2022 #botswana I selected this read. I was totally drawn into it and loved the writing! I truly felt I was beside these two very different people. These characters will stay with you long after the last page is read. @Librarybelle @Texreader @BarbaraBB

At the heart of this novel is the friendship between Isaac, a black man from South Africa & Alice, a white expat living a lonely existence in #Botswana. I was surprised by how radically different the two neighboring countries are & I appreciated all the information this story contained about apartheid. Enjoyed this perspective. Another great read for the #ReadingAfrica22 challenge

There‘s a lot going on in this novel, set in 1970‘s #Botswana. Im learning quite a bit about the landscape and the harsh realities the black families faced in neighboring South Africa. So glad I found this one at my local charity shop😊 #ReadingAfrica22

I was back volunteering at the bookshop today, first time since I had Covid. And this beauty from #Botswana #ReadingAfrica22 caught my eye 😍

Put up a new book display at my library with dogs on the cover for Dog Days of Summer, which is July 3 - August 11.

It‘s here @Tamra , thanks so much for generously passing on some of your books! I‘m looking forward to this read! 📖❤️

I have an affinity for novels set in or writers from Africa, so I wanted this novel to focus more on Isaac & S. Africa/Botswana and not on Alice‘s mid-life relationships. Issac and his family‘s story is more compelling.

Shown in the pic with the book is our recent monthly African Heritage box. Was notified yesterday the boxes are being reduced to quarterly shipments. 😭😭 Kids & I are so bummed about it.

In this heartbreaking novel about the unrest in South Africa during the 1970s, Morse beautifully captures the horror of life during apartheid and the breathtaking landscape of Africa. Her writing is poetic and understated, and her characters are exceptional. This book will stay with me for a long time.

Finally finished my #ReadAroundtheWorld book for Botswana. I can remember who posted about this book but thank you. It was heartbreaking but also with glimmers of hope composed of two related storylines. Alice, a white women living in Botswana hires Isaac, a black South African man as a gardener. Isaac's story is the star of the book, highlighting harsh realities facing black South Africans fleeing from violence to a safer life in Botswana.

How I feel listening to the narrator of my audiobook when she attempts accents. Her South African sounds like a Scottish accent. It's very distracting. I think I like the book, it's just very hard to listen to certain parts.

I picked this book for the #readaroundtheworld challenge for #botswana. The story centers around two main characters, a black South African man who flees to Botswana to avoid political persecution and a white woman going through personal turmoil in her life. I enjoyed the author's descriptions of the Botswana landscape and wildlife as well, pitting the personal stories against the scope of the natural world and ultimately the universe.

I gained insights into Botswana and the fragile relationship with their South African neighbor. The book details two journeys of personal discovery; one an expatriate white woman and the second an illegal refugee from South Africa. Their extremely different circumstances provide a rich backdrop as they try to save themselves and others in a world that does not care to be saved; "it carries us a short distance and drops us when it's done with us"

I started out thinking this book was very formulaic with a "good" white woman and a South African man in trouble escaping to Botswana, but it has transformed into much more and the overriding theme is how small we are against the backdrop of an endless, treeless, waterless expanse. #readaroundtheworld #botswana

Loved this book