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Book Review of The Witch Doctor's Wife (Amanda Brown, Bk 1)

The Witch Doctor's Wife (Amanda Brown, Bk 1)
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This was the best novel about Africa I've seen since Alexander McCall Smith's books came out a dozen years ago - and it's better than most of his later ones. Tamar Myers lived in central Africa as a child and her settings have the joyous clarity of a child's vision. Her characters are mature, complex, sincere and very, very African in their outlook. The novel begins with the crash of a plane bringing a young missionary to the Congo, and concerns a lost-and-found diamond as big as an egg, the relationship between the witch doctor's two wives, and the administration of justice along racial lines. I enjoyed the book very much and have ordered the second in the series.