num_pages: 448
description: 24-year-old Caitlin Davies was studying in America when she met and fell in love with the enigmatic Ron. When Ron returned to his home in Botswana Caitlin joined him in Maun the 'Place of Reeds' and the two began their lives together. Eager to absorb all that Setswana culture had to offer Caitlin found herself becoming part of Ron's extended family falling in love with both the country and its people. Eventually with the birth of their daughter Caitlin's happiness seemed complete.But the Botswana of the 1990s was changing. AIDS and urbanization had taken their toll violence was on the increase. When with her child in her arms Caitlin was brutally attacked Ron's family closed ranks and Caitlin found herself ostracized by the very people she had grown to love.Passionate hilarious dramatic and heartbreaking in turn PLACE OF REEDS is a story of the clash of cultures the inflexibility of belief and traditions. It's a story about women - about Caitlin and her daughter about Eliah and Madintwa Ron's formidable mother and grandmother. Most of all it's a story about one woman's courage resilience - and ultimately survival.
language: English
title: Place of Reeds
publisher: Simon & Schuster