Swimming in the Congo Author:Margaret Meyers Set against a natural landscape of stunning beauty on the banks of the Congo River, SWIMMING IN THE CONGO explores and illuminates the contours of a human landscape just as complex and beguiling. Margaret Meyers paints the childhood experiences of seven-year-old Grace Berggren and offers a sensitive portrayal of mission life: the disparate, and ... more »sometimes conflicting, communities of foreigners living in the Congo; the childhood pleasures of swimming in the rivers; and the relationships Grace cultivates with awe, mystery, and wonder. Meyers teases out the ambiguous feelings of attraction and estrangement underlying Grace's attachments to the African landscape and the people, both indigenous and foreign, who populate it. "These are strange and wonderful stories. The African world through which the child Grace moves, seeing everything in her own way, is comic, exotic, threatening, and bloody by turns. Margaret Meyers makes it real for us." --Ellen Douglas, author of APOSTLES OF LIGHT« less