You'll see how beautiful it is in the morning-jungle all around
us"" says one of the characters in Anne Raeff's story collection,
referring to the way that the jungle that threatens can also
provide solace. The jungle in these stories is both metaphorical
and real, taking the reader from war-torn Europe to Bolivia and
from suburban New Jersey to Vietnam. Raeff examines how war and
violence, like the jungle, seep into our lives, even when we are no
longer in danger and long after the war is over. While struggling
with fear, danger, and displacement, the characters of The Jungle
around Us form strange and powerful bonds in distant and unlikely
places. A family that has escaped Vienna ends up on the edge of the
Amazon, where the parents fight yellow fever and the daughter falls
in love with a village boy. Two sisters learn lessons about race
and war during the Columbia University riots of1968. A young girl
confronts death when her former babysitter is mysteriously
murdered. In Paraguay, two adult sisters confront their loneliness
while their precocious young charge faces off with a monkey. Raeff
's stories are about embracing the world though the world contains
everything we fear.
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