Casting with a Fragile Thread : A Story of Sisters and Africa

A memoir of growing up in Africa describes how the death of her youngest sister, killed on a remote road in Zambia, leads the author on a personal journey of discovery as she confronts the ghosts of her past--a turbulent childhood in colonial Rhodesia, her father's death, her mother's insanity, a brutal civil war, her marriage and motherhood, and more. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.