The Names Of Things A Novel

Chautauqua Prize Finalistthe Anthropologist's Wife, An Artist, Didn't Want To Follow Her Husband To The Remote Desert Of Northeast Africa To Live With Camel-herding Nomads. But Wanting To Be With Him, She Endured The Trip, Only To Fall Desperately Ill Years Later With A Disease That Leaves Her Husband With More Questions Than Answers. When The Anthropologist Discovers A Deception That Shatters His Grief And Guilt, He Begins To Reevaluate His Love For His Wife As Well As His Friendship With One Of The Nomads He Studied.he Returns To Africa To Make Sense Of What Happened, Traveling Into The Far Reaches Of The Chalbi Desert, Where He Must Sift Through The Layers Of His Memories And Reconcile Them With What He Now Knows.