“I really would love to hear what President Barack Obama says about this remarkable Historical novel inspired by selfless Americans changing other people’s lives and presented in a delightful manner.” - Lynne Farmer, former US Peace Corps Volunteer in Botswana “What is really pleasing is the way Makgala manages to (re)create a whole community at a point of important transition from a rural backwater to a village totally integrated into an urban and even global economy. He manages to keep a vast number of characters alive and memorable, in a way that makes the novel almost a Botswana epic.”