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The Clean Daughter: A Cross-Continental Memoir

* Library of Congress *

GREAT READS Book Selection 2025

So Many Africas: Six Years in a Zambian Village

* Winner *

* The Autumn House Prize *

The Sarton Women’s Literary Award

I write to understand the experience of being human, to explore the wonders of life, and to try to make sense of our glorious, short, beautiful existence on earth.