From Publishers Weekly
Biographer Blackburn makes her fictional debut with a multigenerational tale concerning race, madness and identity.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping our fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural--or a white man's guilty fascination with an alien new world? "A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of the power of memory."--Boston Globe.
