Locked together in a bloody civil war, the Hutu and the Tutsi tribes struggle to survive. The son of the murdered Rwandan president and two teenage children of a white family flee for their lives. They have missed the last plane out. Where can they go but the mountains, the home of the gorillas?
Erik Campbell lives in Papua, Indonesia, working as a technical writer for an American mining company. His poems and essays have appeared in numerous prestigious literary magazines, including The Iowa Review, Tin House, The Massachusetts Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, Nimrod, New Delta Review, and Rattle. He has been nominated for a 2005 Pushcart Prize in poetry.