ROBYN SCOTT
Saturday, April 19 at 4 p.m.

In 1987, seven-year-old Robyn Scott and her family moved to Botswana, where she lived with her (flying) physician father and home-schooling enthusiast mother, a story told in her engaging memoir, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle: An African Childhood (Penguin Press). Later moving to boarding school in Zimbabwe, she experienced both an idyllic childhood, filled with charming characters, and a growing awareness of the effects of racism, oppression, and a burgeoning AIDS epidemic on the people of her region. "Happy stories are hard to tell, but Scott succeeds in this engaging recreation of a child's Botswana, apolitical and Eden-like. She has no sordid revelations, no shocking surprises—just a raconteur's talent for making any story she tells interesting." - Publishers Weekly. Robyn Scott was a Gates Scholar to Cambridge, and recently co-founded Mothers4All, a nonprofit supporting caregivers of Botswanan children affected by HIV/AIDS.

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