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Synopsis
Crossing the SavannaThere comes a point in everyone's life when they must cross over a certain threshold. They are faced with a difficult decision to give up or to continue onward, knowing that the road ahead will be challenging and that there is no going back.For Karen ReMine, that point came in the Zambian Savanna on her first medical mission trip deep in the tribal bush region. She dreamed of eliminating apathy, helping others, and connecting people across the world. She followed that dream and founded OMNI, a non-profit organization dedicated to sustainable community improvements. Since that moment, Karen has traveled to Zambia over 47 times in thirteen years. Her courage has led to intervening cases of child abuse and domestic violence saving a battered woman and her six children. A Journey of Courage Karen combines a love of medicine and the desire to serve the impoverished, in often times dangerous situations in the heart of Africa. What follows is an intense and fascinating story of courage, faith, and love for others. This true story takes the reader to the depths of tribal regions seeped in centuries of witchcraft and extreme poverty. Because of her faith in God, one brave woman navigates cultures and faces superstition. Leading team after team, she heads an organization that provides education, medical care, and community support to orphaned children and vulnerable populations threatened by malaria, HIV/Aids and starvation. Starting from the donation of what appeared to be a worthless mango grove near an illiterate farming village, Orphan Medical Network International was born, and, today, educates and medically cares for the most impoverished children in the Copperbelt region of Zambia.
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A darkly comic novel . . . Rao veers between sharp, economic dialogue that can be both hilarious and disquieting. -- Spectator
An auspicious debut – its comedy is dry and biting, its perceptiveness acute, and its picture of India ringingly truthful. --Neel Mukherjee
The medieval and the modern India are depicted here as co-existing, and Rao has succeeded in capturing this with delicacy and insight. -- Times Literary Supplement
About the Author
Mahesh Rao was born and grew up in Nairobi, Kenya. He studied politics and economics at the University of Bristol and law at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics. In the UK he has worked as a lawyer, academic researcher and bookseller. His first novel The Smoke is Rising was shortlisted for the Shakti Bhatt Prize, the Guardian's Not the Booker Prize, and won the Tata First Book Prize. His short fiction has been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Short Story Prize, the Bridport Prize and the Zoetrope: All-Story Short Fiction Contest; his work has appeared in the Baffler and Prairie Schooner. He lives in Mysore, India.
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