Honey from the Lion Author:Wendy Laura Belcher The publication of this account of a young woman's return journey to her childhood home of Ghana, West Africa, marks the debut of a writer whose passionate interest in the issues that divide the first and third worlds is reflected in her unusual ability to explore the nuances of cultural difference. With Mary, a lifelong missionary, as her t... more »raveling companion, she becomes immersed in the life of a small Ghanaian village. Through her eyes, we begin to understand how crises of sexuality and sanity, love and violence, tradition and change, are suffered and ultimately transcended by the African people. This is the story of a young woman's search for her own identity, but also of an even greater crisis of understanding: the struggle of Africans to comprehend and accommodate the Western culture that, increasingly defines and dominates their own.« less