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Mating is Norman Rush’s first full-length novel after the celebrated story collection Whites. It centers on an early‑thirties African‑American anthropologist whose thesis stalls and who ends up pursuing relationships with local and expatriate men in Botswana during the 1980s. The novel also focuses on a middle‑aged white man who has created an unlikely, self‑sustaining community in the Kalahari Desert for destitute African women. Through their courtship, the two protagonists explore themes of ambition, gender relations, cultural identity, and the complexities of living and loving on the margin of a developing African society.
First publish date: 1991
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Norman Rush
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