Preloading

Mount Pleasant

By Patrice Nganang

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pages: 384

Cameroon, 1931: Sara is ripped from home and given as a bride to the just-exiled sultan. She bears witness to a world where myth and colonialism commingle, in a fictional portrait of a rapidly changing country.

— Natalie Beach

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