This is the true story of a remarkable woman who spent twelve extraordinary years in Botswana. In her twenties and studying in America, Caitlin Davies met and fell in love with the enigmatic Ron. When he returned to Botswana, she followed him and the two began their life together in his village, where Caitlin learned to endure the privations of poverty and the rigidity of the matriarchal family structure.
She fell in love with the country and its people, and her happiness seemed complete with the birth of her daughter. Then she was brutally attacked and raped, and found herself ostracized by the people she had grown to love.
This is a story - by turns, hilarious, romantic, dramatic, and heartbreaking - about the clash of cultures, the inflexibility of beliefs and traditions, the changes wrought on a country by AIDS and urbanization, about women, and above all, about one woman's resilience and survival.
