num_pages: 368
description: An extraordinary novel of love friendship and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat Eleanor Morses rich and intimate portrait of Botswana and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable is an absorbing and deeply moving story. In apartheid South Africa in 1976 medical student Isaac Muthethe is forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force. He is smuggled into Botswana where he is hired as a gardener by a young American woman Alice Mendelssohn who has abandoned her Ph.D. studies to follow her husband to Africa. When Isaac goes missing and Alice goes searching for him what she finds will change her life and inextricably bind her to this sunburned beautiful land. Like the African terrain that Alice loves Morses novel is alternately austere and lush spare and lyrical. She is a writer of great and wide-ranging gifts.
language: English
title: White Dog Fell from the Sky
publisher: Viking