Even though the story flows through three generations simultaneously, Ms Morton has managed to keep the book totally readable and not at all confusing. This is one of those books that I was sad to see end. I wish I had a great mystery in my family history to explore!

It took a chapter or two to really get into this book but once I was in it was like I was really in The Congo. The reader is transported to a time and place totally foreign and yet familiar. Although the setting and traditions may be different from what we are used to, the characters remind us of people we know in every community: the gossip, the caretaker, the sweet old doctor... Lives are seamlessly intertwined and plots and subplots take on lives of their own. A special treat for the reader comes at the beginning of the chapters when the author lets us in on details of her life growing up in a tribe of headhunters in the Congo. Time spent reading The Witchdoctor's Wife is time very well spent!