Suzanne Farrell Smith — The Monarch Review

The Vast Inside – Suzanne Farrell Smith

Monday, August 5, 2013 15:50 — 2 Comments

At the heart of Southern Africa, in the northwest region of Botswana, on a long thin island surrounded by vast flood plains, inside a thatch-and-canvas tent-like room built on a wooden deck fifteen feet above vegetation and animal habitat, I sit on a plush white bed surrounded by sheer cotton mosquito netting, staring at the locked glass door, cursing my husband.