When the Plums Are Ripe: A Novel PG_Gift_Guide is the visionary we need

is the visionary we need and the satirist we deserve

But when tables unexpectedly turn

and never let your guard down during October

Laura Lippman

from rarities of her earliest writing to the Realms of the Blood

When the Plums Are Ripe: A Novel PG_Gift_Guide is the visionary we needThe second volume in a magisterial trilogy, the story of Cameroon caught between empires during World War II In Cameroon, plum season is a highly anticipated time of year. But for the narrator of When the Plums Are Ripe, the poet Pouka, the season reminds him of the time when our country had discovered the root not so much of its own violence as that of the worlds own, and, in response, had thrown its sons who at that time were called Senegalese