Walking on Cowrie Shells

Walking on Cowrie Shells focuses on the lives ofhyphenated-Americans with a multi-cultural heritage in the United States and Africa. The book spans genres literary realism, horror, mystery, YA, science fiction andfeatures complex, fully-embodied characters: tongue-tied linguistic anthropologists, comic book enthusiasts and even water goddesses. The author hopes her stories entertain readers while alsooffering them a counterpoint to prevalent heart of darkness writing that too often depicts a singular African experience plagued by locusts, hunger, and tribal in-fighting.