JOYCE BAKER PORTE
WAVEFRONT PRODUCTIONS
BOOKS PAGE 2
SHORT STORY COLLECTION
ISBN 3978-1-59433-121-3
SERENGETI: Those vast African grasslands where God poured out herds of wildlife to trek across the savannah after the thunderous rains. He turned the full brilliance of the sun on the land for warmth. He then put people there and gave them cattle for their wealth and music for their joy.
Hear the call of the birds, and smile as the children play. Somewhere, a lion roars as the sun sinks below the horiaon. Warm winds carry the smell of rain and the heady odor of human toil as a stew cooks over a charcoal fire.
Human tragedy unfolds in slavery and disease. Strangers from other lands come, some to love and care, some to destroy, most without regard to the fragile Serengeti.
Come with me and meet the many--both native and transplant--who live, love, and die in this magnificently brutal land.
ISBN #978-1512244366
1953: An armed uprising in Kenya tears apart the fabric of the country. Marissa Stewart, an American teenager attending a boarding school in the midst of the conflict, sets out to escape the trauma. Her story becomes a hair-raising tale of terror, elopement with author John DuPre, and flight across the face of Africa in search of something just out of reach. Yet she ends up losing everything she holds dear.
2000: Dying and alone in Paris, Marissa asks Charlotte McConnell to write about John's last years of life, which quickly becomes her own story. At first reluctant, Charlotte finds herself caught in the drama and her own life changed completely.