# Return to Laughter

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- Book: [Return to Laughter](https://www.bookquiver.com/elenore-smith-bowen/return-to-laughter) ([Return to Laughter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/elenore-smith-bowen/return-to-laughter.md))
- Authors: [Elenore Smith Bowen](https://www.bookquiver.com/elenore-smith-bowen)
- Publisher: anchor
- ISBN: 978-03-8505-312-9
- Pages: 320
- Published: 1964-02-20
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

This dramatic, revealing novel tells the story of a year with a remote African tribe—a classic of anthropological literature hailed by Margaret Mead as “the first introspective account ever...