Sublime

Not one person they met addressed Sarah or asked where he was taking her.

eople's lives are simultaneously straightforward and full of enormously subtle meaning” (4–

“hermeneutics of love”

Earl Gerald,

Unlike most of the village women who embark on careers with foreign men, Noelline is educated, has completed two years at the lycée run by the sugar refinery at Ankazobe. She writes a fair hand in French orthography, can use a computer, and speaks good French and Italian. Besides her intelligence, her undeniable energy, and a reputed genius for sex

flattens out commonalities, reducing them to sameness:

(She doesn't presume to know our politics; she waits to hear us articulate our politics in our own words, on our own terms—whatever those terms might be.)

She felt the pleasant authority of maturity settle within her,