Mating

Set in the African republic of Botswana–the locale of his acclaimed short story collection, Whites–Norman Rush’s novel simultaneously explores the highest of intellectual high grounds and the most tortuous ravines of the erotic. tackles the geopolitics of poverty and the mystery of what men and women really want.

Five years after making one of the most auspicious literary debuts of the decade with his story collection, WHITES, Norman Rush gives us a major first novel – a comedy of manners on the grandest scale. It revolves around two Americans on the loose (one of them on the prowl) in developing Africa.