Notes from Source: Yes, a wounded soldier walks home from the Civil War, but this novel emerges from the shadow of “Cold Mountain” to tell of the hero’s marriage to a runaway slave and their family’s disturbing legacy. […]his characters don’t stand the ghost of a chance. An account of how the Central Intelligence Agency covertly financed cultural activities as part of the cold war. Camouflaged as natural history, ode to gawky beauty (great legs, lipstick, lashes to die for) and social study of precarious empires built on feathers, this book is at bottom a haunting memoir of the author’s South African boyhood.

Further Notes: Place: New York Publisher: Times Company