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Eleanor Merritt, a devoted American family‑planning worker, travels to Kenya to help improve the lives of the poor. She soon finds herself drawn to Calvin Piper, a charismatic yet misanthropic thinker with radical ideas about population control and humanity’s future. As Eleanor navigates the challenges of a modern African setting, the novel explores the tension between lofty ideals and the complex realities of poverty, birth‑control clinics, and the unintended consequences of well‑meaning interventions. Lionel Shriver uses wit and a sharp eye to expose the hypocrisy of intellectuals who claim to "save" humanity while their actions often tell a different story.
First publish date: April 5, 1994
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Lionel Shriver
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