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The Grass Is Singing: The Colonial Rhodesia Farm as a Pressure Cooker
Doris Lessing's novel examines a household whose racial authority survives its economic and emotional failures. Its force comes from that close view; its limitation is how little of the wider African world the household permits readers to see.