Strange Fruit

A trained anthropologist takes up her first assignment in the Kalimantan jungle.

March 10, 2010

A TASTE FOR GREEN TANGERINES
Author: Barbara Bisco
Published by: Black Lotus

THE subtitle of this novel should have been enough to alert me: A Romp in the Rainforest. Nobody romps in rainforests, except, of course, loggers, legal and illegal, oil palm-idiot businesses and the like.

Alerted to what? Well, to a pretty tedious story, not well-told.

Bethany Parker, young, a little footloose although she does have a ‘boyfriend’ (why are adult

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