Embassy Wife

by Katie Crouch

Katie Crouch “makes tough lessons very easy to swallow,” said Bethanne Patrick in the Los Angeles Times. On the surface, her new novel is about status competition among pampered white women who have landed in Namibia as the spouses of American envoys. But Crouch has devised a plot that also forces readers to confront the corruption and misogyny that shape millions of lives in sub-Saharan Africa. So “come for the romp but stay for the study of human nature and human survival.”