Disturbance-loving Species (Paperback)

Peter Chilson's fiction debut delivers a fascinating, heart-wrenching view of modern African culture, filtered through the lens of the West. In a novella and four short stories, Chilson, who traveled to Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a freelance journalist, uses a phrase borrowed from biology to point out how our "disturbance-loving species" thrives in the most chaotic, seemingly unlivable situations. As this remarkable collection explores the experiences of Americans struggling to cope with the political and social upheaval of life in Africa and of Africans acclimating to life in the United States, Chilson captures in vivid detail the strange, exhilarating frisson between cultures.

General

Imprint:	Houghton Mifflin
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2007
First published:	August 2007
Authors:	Peter Chilson
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-0-618-85870-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-618-85870-9
Barcode:	9780618858705

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