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Fiona Garvey, ballet dancer and recent college graduate, joins the Peace Corps to escape a painful family situation and ends up in Gabon, an African country she's never heard of, hoping its wild beauty will speak to her artist's soul. Instead Fiona quickly realizes she�s in over her head. Her job teaching English, executed in breezy Western style, crashes hard into Africa's complicated reality. One of her older students becomes menacingly fixated on Fiona, until her former trainer, Christophe, a charismatic, philandering Gabonese man she�s incapable of forgetting, uses his privilege and connections to make the problem go away.Surrounded by the roots of African dance, Fiona�s abandoned ballet practice gradually morphs into something feral and mystical. This, along with her pale blue eyes, prompts the locals to believe she holds the power to access the spirit world. And when her former student returns, bent on confronting Fiona one last time, it is not Christophe but Fiona who can�and must�reach inside herself to find her own personal power and fight back.Blending humor and pathos, A DANCER�S GUIDE TO AFRICA takes the reader along on a suspenseful, sensual journey through Africa�s complex beauty, mystery and mysticism.