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Marcella in search of herself: a headstrong heroine zigzags from Zanzibar to America in Roger King's daring new novel. (Reading Room).(A Girl from Zanzibar)(Book Review)

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| November 01, 2002 | Richardson, Elaina | COPYRIGHT 2007 Hearst Communications, reprinted with permission of Hearst. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A STEADY BEAT OF DANGER PURSUES the adventurous, money-hungry heroine of Roger King's intriguing new novel, A Girl from Zanzibar (Books & Co./Helen Marx). As she moves from her first, tentatively entrepreneurial steps in her native Zanzibar to significantly higher-powered (and ominously shady) wheelings and dealings in London (home to a thriving community of illegal immigrants), to prison, and then to the seemingly inevitable expat destination, the States, Marcella D'Souza reinvents herself again and again. Marcella is the product of a place that has seen wave after wave of colonizers and conquerors, and her genes reflect that stormy history. Her search for…

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