BookPage, full review: Masha Hamilton’s compelling third novel, The Camel Bookmobile, leaves no room for doubt: Books are essential. Cookbooks, novels, parenting books—they all matter to Fiona “Fi” Sweeney, a librarian from Brooklyn searching for fulfillment atop a bookladen camel in the arid and dangerous bush of Kenya. Read the rest of this entry »
By Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal — March 15, 2007
Under an immense blue sky, past sere acacia and stands of coppery grass wrung dry by the sun, three camels sway toward the little dome-shaped huts of the region’s nomads with a precious load of…books? Yes, it’s the Kenya National Library Service’s Camel Mobile Library Service, which since October 1996 has carried valuable reading materials to underserved populations in Kenya’s remote and drought-stricken northeast. Now this truly unique service has inspired an engaging new novel by Masha Hamilton called The Camel Bookmobile.
Library Journal, STARRED, full review: New York City librarian Fiona Sweeney has taken an unusual assignment in Kenya—running a bookmobile service powered by camel and serving isolated, seminomadic villages like Mididima, where teenaged library customer Kanika lives with her grandmother, Neema. Read the rest of this entry »
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