# Crossing the River

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- Book: [Crossing the River](https://www.bookquiver.com/caryl-phillips/crossing-the-river) ([Crossing the River.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/caryl-phillips/crossing-the-river.md))
- Authors: [Caryl Phillips](https://www.bookquiver.com/caryl-phillips)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7975-794-8
- Pages: 256
- Published: 1995-01-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness,...