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"An illuminating debut following three women in sub-Saharan Africa as they search for home and family. Leona, an isolated American anthropologist, gives birth to a baby girl in a remote Maasai village and must decide how she can be a mother, in spite of her own grim childhood. Jane, a lonely expat wife, follows her husband to the tropics and learns just how fragile life is. Simi, a barren Maasai woman, must confront her infertility in a society in...

Describes the daily activities of two young members of the Masaitribe.

When a Masai father in Africa answers his son's questions, the boy learns that his father's love for him is unconditional.

A young Masai herdboy's defense of his pet heifer from a lion precipitates a crisis within the tribe.

In this retelling of a Masai tale, a mongoose helps an ostrich get her chicks back from the lonely lioness who has stolen them.