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In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
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The Citizens of London by Lynne Olsen
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Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abby: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Countess of Fiona Carnarvon

Book Review “With her influence on the sexual revolution, Mead was a globe-spanning iconoclast, alarming some and cheering others, becoming finally something of a totem upon which various groups cast their hopes and fears. So it’s refreshing to see the world’s most famous anthropologist brought down to human scale and placed at the center of this svelte new book by Lily King”  "Euphoria: A Novel based on Margaret Mead’ Ron Charles, The Washington Post,June 17, 2014
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Author Bio: 

51 year old Lily King grew up in Massachusetts. She has a B.A. in English Literature from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a M.A. in Creative Writing from Syracuse University.
Her first novel, The Pleasing Hour was published in 1999, followed by The English Teacher winning the Maine Book Award for fiction and was named Book of the Year by the Chicago Tribune.  Her third book Father of the Rain was named a summer must-read by O, the Oprah magazine. Her fourth novel, Euphoria won the new $50,000 Kirkus Prize in 2015. Lily King lives in Maine with her husband and two children. 
Author Quotes: "The novel was about science and anthropologists and I knew nothing about anthropology. It was set in a jungle, up this river I had never heard of before, the whole thing was daunting." Lily King from interview with Fiona Purdon 
is reading "Euphoria"  written by Lily King for July/August. 

Lily King takes us on an adventure thousands of miles away from civilization. A complex and dangerous three way love triangle set in the 1930’s in Papua New Guinea inspired by the field journals of anthropologist Margaret Mead is at the crux of Lily King’s novel, Euphoria.  This fictionalized tale of the lives of three anthropologists: Margaret Mead, Reo Fortune and Gregory Bateson aka Nell Stone, Fen Stone and Andrew Bankson living life stripped bare and on the edge. The book transports the reader to the remote jungles along the Sepik River where the three scientists are studying tribal societies. Lily King won the inaugural $50,000 Kirkus award for fiction. The judges described the novel as “a small gem, disturbing and haunting.”

Nell describes the feeling when you think you have a grasp of a culture, ''It's a delusion -- you've only been there eight weeks -- and it's followed by the complete despair of ever understanding anything. But at that moment the place feels entirely yours. It's the briefest, purest euphoria.''
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Lily King speaks about Euphoria