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In smalltown Maidson Wisconsin, it's a big deal when African peace activist Joshua Hakizimana -- who saved hundreds of people from the Rwandan genocide -- accepts a position at the university to teach about "genocide and testimony." Then a young girl is found murdered on his doorstep. For local police Detective Ishmael -- an African-American in an "extremely white" town -- it seems like the kind of crime that happens in an area where the Ku Klux Klan still holds rallies. But then he gets a mysterious phone call: "If you want the truth, you must go to its source. The truth is in the past. Come to Nairobi." It's the beginning of a journey that will take him to a place still vibrating from the genocide that happened around its borders, where violence is a part of every day life, where big-oil money rules and where the local cops shoot first and ask questions later. And although it's the land of his ancestors -- "a place I vaguely longed for without really wanting to belong to it" -- for Ishmael, it becomes a disorienting and terrifying quest through the slums of Nairobi, a place where knowing the truth about history can kill you. E-book ISBN: 978-1-61219-007-5
