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Malaika by Heerling, van is a book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Malaika about?
The first time I saw her I was dazed but recovering from a hellish sleep of nightmares. Not sure if it was the scent of coffee lackadaisically meandering across the Serengeti that brought us to our serendipitous moment (do big cats drink coffee?), or if it was that she had told me she'd be here soon. I generally don't have conversations with animals- other than the human kind. I suppose if the dialogue occurs while dreaming you aren't crazy, right? As far as how I came about to live just inside Kenya at the Tanzanian border overlooking the Serengeti, well, that is another lifetime dappled with hurt and a lost love elsewhere in the world- I won't bore you with the details. I wanted to get as far away from that pain as I could. The 'geti is about as distant as I could travel. Funny, no matter how far one travels the past is just a moment, just a thought away.I will not taint this story with that past. This is a story of a more recent past, of a friendship- the most important friendship I've ever had.I live east of a village. I am the only white man for probably twenty miles or more. I suppose there could be a few around or many in town but I haven't seen any. This life can be hard to
- Author
- Heerling, van
- Publisher
- Outskirts Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781432763664
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (507 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14