By Cathleen Medwick
Oprah.com |
From the September 2007 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
Africa—anguished, impoverished, monstrously beautiful—takes the measure of every novelist daring enough to confront its mysteries. Lara Santoro's Mercy (Other Press) swirls around a self-immolating Italian-born journalist named Anna, the two wildly attractive men she attracts and deflects, and her self-appointed housekeeper, a force of nature named Mercy. The urgent message of this gorgeously written novel, which deals head-on with the ravages of AIDS on a continent of grief: Open your eyes and look hard.
Printed from Oprah.com on Saturday, February 11, 2012
