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It's been more than a decade since Rush won the National Book Award for his first novel, Mating, and after finishing this colossal tome, many readers still won't know whether it was worth the wait. The story is straightforward enough: burdened by memories of a maddening brother and his own thwarted ambitions as a writer, Ray works in early 1990s Botswana, ostensibly as an instructor at a prestigious private school but in fact as an increasingly alienated contra...Log In or Sign Up to Read More