Set in 1990s Madagascar, one woman’s entry into the emerald-mining world reveals the powerful allure, and the hidden cost, of seeking belonging in a place where she will always be an outsider.
When a small island nation cuts itself off from the world to protect against accelerating AI domination, an American woman stranded there becomes an unwilling witness to the last non-AI society on earth and the peril it faces from within.
Set against a houseboat trip down the Zambezi in the early 2000s, Trees That Grow in Rivers follows a group of tourists caught in the river’s breathtaking sweep just as Zimbabwe plunges into the world’s worst economic freefall.
