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Katie
Dec 07, 2014 rated it it was ok
Disturbance-Loving Species is a collection that contains a novella and several short stories. All of the stories take place in either West Africa or America and have characters from both cultures, thus the theme of the stories is the tension experienced as the characters attempt to navigate their way through another culture.

I didn't find the stories to be incredibly engaging, nor the characters very intriguing or well-developed. Many of the descriptions of African culture seemed over-generalized
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