Sunday, June 1, 2008

Hypochondria

this could be the heart of the book

sickness

*Bekah's rash, the hospital; do I have a story here?

pg 206: nervous breakdown!

"I suppose not too many Africans come in with this problem."
"On de contrary..."
"Only educated Togolese?"
"Of course. Never de peasants. Deir lifes haf not yet been torn in two."

pg 208: traditional medicine

facts and figures

strong story of the witnessing of a child's death

funeral in the village

*aren't all PC book by definition written by Young people - their first books?

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