Before reading this book; I couldn't tell you anything about bonobos except that they're like chimps who have a lot of sex, I couldn't tell you anything about life in war ravaged Congo except that the war has something to do with diamonds, and I certainly couldn't tell you anything about meeting, falling for, marrying & living with the love of your life. Now... well... some things you just have to experience for yourself. But I am confident that if any of those subjects were to come up in a conversation, I could keep myself from looking like a complete idiot (celebrate the small victories folks).
This isn't just an adventure story about a girl living in the Congo, working with apes. This isn't just a love story about how she fell in love with her husband or how she fell in love with the bonobos or how she fell in love with a country and it's people. This isn't just a war story about death, violence, torture, anguish and loss. This story is alittle bit of all of those things but when you put them all together, it's something more. It's a story about life, and life never fits nicely into one genre or another.
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