Vassanji returns to the East African coast. The academically gifted Kamal grows up as a "dark Indian," eventually going to university and departing for Canada. Left behind to her traditional fate is Saida, now a beautiful young woman. Decades later, Kamal's guilt pulls him back to Kilwa where he discovers what happened to Saida during a harrowing night of sinister rites. This is a complex, revelatory, sweeping and shocking book.
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