At one point in this novel, the narrator befriends a woman named Leto on whose urging the narrator briefly serves as a snake hunter.
At one point in this novel, the narrator befriends a woman named Leto on whose urging the narrator briefly serves as a snake hunter. In this novel, the narrator and her lover occasionally play a game called "Filling in the White Spaces in the Dictionary," and this novel's narrator continuously invents titles for her major work such as "A Fete Worse Than Death," and "I Love a Demystified Thing Inordinately." This novel is set in the village of Tsau, which is organized as an experimental matriarchal society, and at its end, the narrator manipulates a girl named Bronwen into sleeping with her former lover after that lover is injured during a trip across the desert. Like the author's first work, a short story collection titled (*) Whites, this novel is set in Botswana, where the author served as a Peace Corps administrator. For 10 points, identify this novel which focuses on the unnamed narrator's affair with Nelson Denoon, which won the 1991 National Book Award for Norman Rush.
At one point in this novel, the narrator befriends a woman named Leto on whose urging the narrator briefly serves as a snake hunter.
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