Boston Book Review In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman.
Spiraling outward from the core image of a Cattle killing--the Xhosa people\'s ritual destruction of their herd in a vain attempt to resist European domination--the novel expands its narrator\'s.
His struggle to find her and save them both plummets them both into the nightmare of a society violently splitting itself into white and black.
Boston Book Review In plague-ridden eighteenth-century Philadelphia, a young itinerant black preacher searches for a mysterious, endangered African woman