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Joss: The Ambassador's Wife
An American journalist, Tom Craig, visits Malawi ostensibly to cover a string of murders purportedly committed by a leopard, but actually to rekindle a passionate affair, Jocelyn (Joss) Hazen, without telling his bush-pilot girlfriend. Maggie.
What's so special about Joss? Here's how Tom describes her: "If Jocelyn is consummately beautiful, she is also consummately perverse, the most difficult, the most damnably vexing woman I have ever met. But she gets away with it."
So Tom goes questing in Malawi. But it will not be easy to be alone with Joss in a place where an American ambassador's wife is a celebrity. Especially when, having suffered an accident, she's in a fragile state. When they meet, Tom realizes she doesn't recognize him. But hold on! Is she really Joss? Or an impostor who resembles her?
Tom has to know. And if she's an impostor, what happened to Joss?
What's so special about Joss? Here's how Tom describes her: "If Jocelyn is consummately beautiful, she is also consummately perverse, the most difficult, the most damnably vexing woman I have ever met. But she gets away with it."
So Tom goes questing in Malawi. But it will not be easy to be alone with Joss in a place where an American ambassador's wife is a celebrity. Especially when, having suffered an accident, she's in a fragile state. When they meet, Tom realizes she doesn't recognize him. But hold on! Is she really Joss? Or an impostor who resembles her?
Tom has to know. And if she's an impostor, what happened to Joss?
240 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 4, 2012
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July 8, 2012
I haven't read a book in an embarrassingly long period of time. Joss: The Ambassador's Wife was a good way to start back up. It's an intriguing story with a good mystery and a... well, not entirely likable narrator, but an interesting one to follow around as he tries to figure out what's going on inside the home of the American ambassador to Malawi. It made for a quick, entertaining read with a satisfying, but not too neat, ending.
Something I really enjoyed was that Africa itself is not treated as a monolithic whole -- the different countries visited are each unique with their own rhythms and concerns. And the narrator, Tom, a journalist for a California paper stationed in Africa for several years, has varying levels of connections within each country. Some, he's very familiar with, some not at all. But he's also really clear on his place as outsider, even in those places he's most familiar with. (It probably helps a great deal that the author worked as a journalist in Africa for many years.)
Something I really enjoyed was that Africa itself is not treated as a monolithic whole -- the different countries visited are each unique with their own rhythms and concerns. And the narrator, Tom, a journalist for a California paper stationed in Africa for several years, has varying levels of connections within each country. Some, he's very familiar with, some not at all. But he's also really clear on his place as outsider, even in those places he's most familiar with. (It probably helps a great deal that the author worked as a journalist in Africa for many years.)
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