Three Weeks in December (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781609450649)

"Two Americans have life-altering experiences in Africa a century apart in this environmentalist adventure novel" by the author of Theory of Bastards (Kirkus Reviews).

In 1899, Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across British East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he becomes the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in nightly attacks. Plagued by fear and alienated by a secret he can tell no one, Jeremy takes increasing solace in the company of his African scout.
In 2000, Max, an American ethnobotanist, travels to Rwanda where she searches for an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical. Stationed in the mountains, she shadows a family of gorillas--the last of their group to survive the local poachers. But their precarious freedom is threatened as a violent rebel group from the nearby Congo draws close.
Told in alternating perspectives that interweave the two characters and their fates, Audrey Schulman's novel deftly confronts the struggle between progress and preservation, idiosyncrasy and acceptance.

Author: Audrey Schulman
ISBN-10: 1609450647
ISBN-13: 9781609450649
Publisher: Europa Editions
Language: English
Published: 01/31/2012
Pages: 349
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 12/19/2011
Library Journal 01/01/2012 pg. 98
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2012
Shelf Awareness 02/07/2012
New York Times Book Review 02/19/2012 pg. 22
New Yorker (The) 03/05/2012 pg. 81