Jennifer Baldy’s Reviews > The Famished Road > Status Update

This begins in a kind of Alice in Wonderland style, as a child is born that maintains his connection to the spirit world, it is like a world of hallucinations overlapping reality. Set in west Africa, I'm gathering, due to food and plants referenced, at a time of political unrest, in abject poverty and violence, but from a child's viewpoint. It was difficult to get started with.