Fiction Debut- Jenny Williams’s BITTER ROOT, set against the backdrop of Joseph Kony’s war in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, pitched as the “Blood Diamond” of the illegal ivory trade in which a white aid worker from Germany and a young Ugandan woman band together to search for their loved ones who have gone suddenly missing in a searing exploration of family and war, to Quressa Robinson at Thomas Dunne Books, by Marly Rusoff at Marly Rusoff & Associates (NA).
