Still Waters in Niger

STILL WATERS IN NIGER is so masterfully conceived and written that I was reluctant to finish, reading more and more slowly as I came toward the end. This is a work that grows increasingly powerful and beautiful, especially in its final section and concluding three calls to prayer. The author transported me to Niger and enlarged my understanding of what is is to be a global citizen, a parent (and daughter), a mother, a woman, and (so searchingly) a person. I intend to survey recent issues of the Hudson and Yale Reviews where, according to the jacket, there are other works by Kathleen Hill. May she give us more writing and, soon, another book as fine as this!

I have been in Zinder for three years and in Niger for 12 years. In "Still Waters in Niger" the author Kathleen Hill puts me back there as it was, as it is, as it will be when I will go back there. Quite a writer... everything is so true in that "novel". Zinder is more real than life. And fiction brings you to reality.It is a documentary through poetry. This is due to the great talent of the author and also to her keen sense of observation. An gode maki. Barka da aiki!