From New England Book Award winner Lily King comes abreathtaking novel about three young anthropologists of the ''30s caught in apassionate love triangle that threatens their bonds, their careers, and ultimately, their lives.
English anthropologist Andrew Bankson has been alone in thefield for several years, studying the Kiona river tribe in the territory of NewGuinea. Haunted by the memory of his brothers'' deaths and increasinglyfrustrated and isolated by his research, Bankson is on the verge of suicidewhen a chance encounter with colleagues, the controversial Nell Stone and herwry and mercurial Australian husband Fen, pulls him back from the brink. Nelland Fen have just fled the bloodthirsty Mumbanyo and, in spite of Nell''s poorhealth, are hungry for a new discovery. When Bankson finds them a new tribenearby-the artistic, female-dominated Tam-he ignites an intellectual andromantic firestorm between the three of them that burns out of anyone''scontrol.
Set between two World Wars and inspired by events in thelife of revolutionary anthropologist Margaret Mead, Euphoria is anenthralling story of passion, possession, exploration, and sacrifice fromaccomplished author Lily King.
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