What set this book apart from other books on Africa is because it portrays Africa as it is and not as the helpless demoralized famine stricken continent that the westerners are bound to project. The book explores the tragedy of a White woman loosing his son ten years ago and wanted to have a closure. It turns out that her son fell into a thorn pit and was dragged by the lover of his lover into an anthill where his body eventually became one with the earth leaving no trace. In the midst of her search for the answers, the head of the no.1 ladies detective agency has to balance her engagement to a mechanic with a sinister hosehold help and two newly adopted children.
This is a light read but it changed my views of Africa. I hope there are books like this that will change the images of the Philippines. We have moral characters too that exist and our lives go beyond the drudgery of war, drugs and corruption. It just takes a voice like Alexander McCall Smith to start the transformation.
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