In Conversation with Bessie Head

In Conversation with Bessie Head shows how reading the novels and letters of Botswana''s most influential writer, Bessie Head, fosters an ongoing conversation between reader and writer and is in fact a very personal undertaking. Each chapter tackles two parallel threads, the first regarding Mary S. Lederer''s own history of reading Head-from her first purchase of Maru, through completing a Ph.D. o...