The Leper Compound

Anticipate excellent review coverage for this first novel--original voice, vivid south African setting, autobiographical angle. Several, equally compelling dimensions will appeal to different constituencies: mental health, political (decolonization in Africa), and literary, making this perfect for BOTH on and off the book page coverage! Academic Marketing: Medical Schools and universities with writing/medical writing programs.

The psychic geography of conflict in southern Africa is revealed in this arrestingly imaginative first novel."The Leper Compound will ...remain with the reader long after the book has been closed."-Stuart Dybek, author of I Sailed with Magellan For Colleen, motherless at seven, isolated from her schizophrenic younger sister, illness unleashes the uncanny and essential of human identity. Growing into womanhood in Rhodesia's final conflict-ridden years, she transgresses social, racial, and political boundaries in her search for connection. This masterly novel is a searing evocation of late-twentieth-century African life. Paula Nangle was raised by missionaries in the United States and southern Africa and now lives in Benton Harbor, Michigan. This is her first novel.