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Letters from Togo (Singular Lives) (Hardcover)

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"Letters from Togo is more than a travel book.  From the window of her flat, Blake looks out on bare-breasted women--voodoo novices--gathering palm fronds, while behind her Mahouna brushes her kitchen floor.  It is the tension between these two worlds that Blake so painfully and beautifully relates-the African without, the Anglo-American within.  We travel with Blake to West Africa.  But we also travel to the uncomfortable core of what it means to be an outsider, a yovo, in a land that is not our own." --Dea Birkett
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  • Hardcover: 179 pages
  • Publisher: University of Iowa Press; 1st edition (November 1991)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 087745339X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0877453390
  • Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.8 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,112,425 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Letters from Togo brings to life the Africa of the early 1980s. The people in Togo are real and the author who wrote the letters is real. Readers will be fascinated not only by life in Togo but by the author who reveals herself as a warm, intelligent human being.
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