Rogue Elephants: A Novel of the Peace Corps

Rogue Elephants, [ALSO AVAILABLE AS PAPERBACK ON THIS PAGE] set in Niger, West Africa, follows the experiences of three Peace Corps volunteers. Contradictory impulses in Adam Goldstein drive plot forward. His desire to help his village is often outmatched by his desire for gratification. For Ed Espada, the success of his service depends on keeping his gay identity under wraps. Ed doesn't have difficulty in this—at least not until his oil executive father pays him a visit with an attractive Nigerian male attendant. Sheryl Johnson was raped one night in the Peace Corps training camp. After medevac to the states, she's discouraged from going back to Niger. Eventually she is allowed to pursue Peace Corps service. Once she returns to Niger she has a difficult time reconciling her past trauma with her desire for intimacy. Novel opens with a journalist investigating the apparent death of volunteer Adam Goldstein. Villagers tell him volunteer’s death was caused by jinn(bush spirits). Sheltering Sky meets Seinfeld.