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    <body><![CDATA[This is strong collection of short fiction that--full disclosure--won the Bakeless Prize for fiction the year before my first book did. Chilson draws upon his experiences in Africa (Peace Corps, journalism) to give vivid portraits of the interaction between western and African culture. While occasio...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23887507">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Chilson is writing about a period and area of Africa that was totally foreign to me.  Yet there are overriding themes so universal to the 'muzungu' African experience that I could relate to many of the characters in his stories.  The novella (&quot;Tea With Soldiers&quot;) was filled with political ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12126317">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Whew, what a set of great stories. I loved the one that opens with an African soil scientist cooking a goat head behind the lilacs in the back yard of his apartment in somewhere very much like La Grande, Oregon. I loved all of them. This is worth seeking out if you are interested in the relationship...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18881975">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is an interesting book - was written by a Peace Corps volunteer. Has stories about Niger in it, but it's a Niger I never knew!! A violent one...]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I liked the short stories much better than the novella.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Okay-- but a bit random.]]></body>
    
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