Read Circling the Sun Page 33


  Incredibly beneficial in helping me conjure both colonial Kenya and the lives of these British expats were The Flame Trees of Thika and Nine Faces of Kenya: Portrait of a Nation, by Elspeth Huxley; The Bolter, by Frances Osborne; The Ghosts of Happy Valley, by Juliet Barnes; The Tree Where Man Was Born, by Peter Matthiessen; Swahili Tales, by Edward Steere; and Kenya: A Country in the Making, 1880–1940, by Nigel Pavitt.

  BY PAULA MCLAIN

  Circling the Sun

  The Paris Wife

  A Ticket to Ride

  Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses: A Memoir

  About the Author

  PAULA MCLAIN is the author of The Paris Wife, a New York Times and international bestseller. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Michigan and has been awarded fellowships from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the National Endowment for the Arts. McLain is also the author of two collections of poetry; a memoir, Like Family: Growing Up in Other People’s Houses; and a first novel, A Ticket to Ride. She lives in Cleveland with her family.

 


 

  Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

 


 

 
Thank you for reading books on BookFrom.Net

Share this book with friends