where the writers are

Sarah Stone's Reviews

Reviews of Sarah’s Work

The True Sources of the Nile
Published by The New York Times
Sarah Stone's fine first novel is about a love affair between Anne Copeland, a 37-year-old Californian doing human rights work in central Africa, and Jean-Pierre Bukimana, a...
The True Sources of the Nile
Published by Publishers Weekly
About that title: experts disagree, citing no fewer than five possible sites. Anne, a human rights activist working in Burundi, finds the avowed source there disappointing, a slow...
The True Sources of the Nile
Published by BookPage
A ghastly scene in Sarah Stone's fascinating first novel, The True Sources of the Nile, starkly illustrates the saying that one death is a tragedy and a million are a statistic....
The True Sources of the Nile
Published by Library Journal
This stunning first novel, set in contemporary Africa, begs to be compared to Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible and Ronan Bennett's The Catastrophist yet is distinctive...