![]() ![]() ![]() His shocking revelations land him in court. The last man who spoke to her, the “madman” Bukuru, is asked to account for her last moments. In the country of Madia (based in part on Ndibe’s native Nigeria) a young prostitute runs into the sea and drowns. When the Colonel’s son, Confederate soldier Archer Smith, arrives at home and finds his father murdered, he vows revenge upon Jupiter for all he has lost, following his former slave to the far reaches of the continent. Out of pity, Jupiter strangles him and heads west to seek a new life in San Francisco. He returns to the plantation he worked on before the war in search of his woman, but rather finds his old master gone mad, haunting the ruins like a ghost. The Civil War is over, though for Jupiter Smith, a former slave and Union soldier, many battles still lie ahead. The Abduction of Smith and Smith by Rashad Harrison. She is 20, restless in New Delhi. He is a few years older, just back to India from New York. When they meet in a café one afternoon, she-lonely, hungry for experience, yearning to break free of tradition-casts aside her fears and throws herself headlong into a love affair that will change her forever. ![]() A highly charged fiction debut about a young woman in India, and the love that both shatters and transforms her. ![]()
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