New York Times bestselling author CHRIS BOJALIAN joins BOOKSTORM Podcast to discuss THE LIONESS, his newest thriller (and now an upcoming television movie by eOne)! Chris transports us to Tanzania in the early 1960s. An A-list Hollywood actress and her new husband have brought an entourage of Hollywood-types on their honeymoon safari ... what could go wrong? For one, as Chris discusses, this is a time of major political upheaval. De-colonization was underway. The world's superpowers were backing various African factions in an effort to promote communism or democracy. It was a full-out proxy war, with Russians and CIA operatives crawling all over sub-Saharan Africa. We talk about these power plays. We discuss the "old ways," when the "Great White Hunter" was revered. We talk about exploitation. We explore prejudice and hate in various forms ... and on all continents. One character wonders: “Was there no place on the planet where he wasn’t going to have to fight to survive?” Sometimes that fight is physical and sometimes its psychological ... sometimes it takes place in far-away lands, and sometimes its right in our hometown. We talked about strength, and whether nature or nurture holds the most power over our strengths and weaknesses? We talk about fear and how it can stop us in our tracks. Is there such a thing as healthy fear? And since this is a safari, we talk about the wild animals hunting and killing human prey in the darkness of night. Who do you fear more? Humankind or wild animals? What does it take to have a survivor mentality? WOW, this discussion left us talking. JOIN US!
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