Louise Young's Books
Nov.01.2009
Jenny Dunfre is a graduate student in tropical ornithology who, because of a sexual indiscretion, is banished from her relatively staid appointment at research compound near the Panama Canal to a field site so remote that the only people she has contact with are the residents of a nearby indigenous community, the Kunas. Her touchstone for handling the dodgy social situation she's...
About Louise
My mother published a novel when I was six. Before that, we had been your typical suburban family: father working, mother staying home and taking care of the eight children (did I mention that we were Catholic?) but once the media got a hold...
Connections
Causes Louise Young Supports
articulation of indigenous rights (organization: Cultural Survival)
sustainable, renewable, and independent energy sources
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Louise’s Favorite Books
THE SAVAGE DETECTIVES by Roberto Bolano, THE SPELL OF THE SENSUOUS by David Abrams, ANIL'S GHOSTS (or is it maybe IN THE SKIN OF A LION?) by Michael Ondaatji,...