The Lower River
Short story about Altman, an elderly man from Medford, Massachusetts, who returns to the Lower River region of Malawi, where he had worked as a volunteer …
Paul Theroux's Ellis Hock had been one of those volunteer teachers the other Americans muttered about—nobody wanted to go to the Lower River. Fluent in Sena, he'd studied the all-night Nyau dance performed naked with fetish masks. Now, decades later, he returned to find everything changed.