Stark Truth: Behind the Beautiful Forevers

My latest novel, The Shade Under the Mango Tree, takes the reader to a foreign culture. I’ve traveled to Asia, Europe, and parts of North Africa so it might have been inevitable that I would write about experiencing other cultures in my fiction. But more than the act and pleasure of traveling, it’s “living” (no matter how superficial and transient) in the cultures I visit that stays with me.

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The pandemic has vastly curtailed travel but, thanks to books and other written sources, we can still d...