My Murder in the Heart of Africa
Andrew Rice’s first book, The Teeth May Smile but the Heart Does Not Forget: Murder and Memory in Uganda, will be published in May by Metropolitan Books. He is a contributing editor at Conde Nast Portfolio and a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine. Between 2002 and 2004, he lived in Uganda as a fellow of the Institute of Current World Affairs, an American nonprofit foundation.
Award-winning journalist Andrew Rice went to Uganda for a fellowship-and came back with a heart-thumping murder mystery that led all the way to a decades-old killing spree everyone wanted to forgive.
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