But Evan is soon bored teaching in the Senegalese countryside, and finds the people and culture alien. His psychologist girlfriend Wanda hopes he might learn there to be more accepting of his ethnicity. Questioning his blackness, he decides to join the Peace Corps and work in Africa. College-educated, he had drifted into the navy, and then moved on, never quite sure what he was searching for but aware always of a pervasive sense of purposelessness. Evan Norris, a young black man, is the son of a prosperous family. At times the book seems like a surrealistic Heart of Darkness, as the central character seeks meaning for himself, and understanding of the occult-suffused African society in which he has come to work. A search for identity is the theme of this first novel by prize-winning writer Mc.
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