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Another glorious tale of female empowerment from the author of Mrs. Caliban After getting a haircut in London and a few new outfits (�she bought two pairs of shoes and began to enjoy herself�), Millie, the neglected American wife of an academic pill, is transformed�and, upon arrival in Africa, falls into the perfect affair. Binstead�s Safari unfolds the fractured fairy tale of the rebirth of a drab, insecure woman as a fiercely alive, fearless beauty. �Life was too short to waste time trying to find excuses for not doing the things you really wanted to do,� Millie realizes, helping herself to love and joy. The husband is astonished�everyone adores the new Millie. She can�t put a foot wrong, and as they move deeper into Africa in search of lion myths for his book, �excitement and pleasure carried her upwards as on a tide.� Mysteries abound, but in the hands of Rachel Ingalls, the ultimate master of the curveball, Millie�s resurrection seems perfectly natural: caterpillar to butterfly. �Only now had she found her life��and also her destiny, which may, this being Ingalls, take the form of a Lion God.