One guide who survives, Benjamin Kikwete, and his older mentor, Muema Kambona, sound at times like Hollywood versions of themselves, using tired terms like “bwana” and saying improbable things about the landscape such as, “This could never grow tiresome.” On the other hand, Bohjalian also makes astute observations about these men whose livelihood depends on rich Western tourists. Where this wears most thin is in the portrayal of African characters. The former ‘Big Bang Theory’ actress is a first-time producer on the HBO Max comedy-thriller with hairpin tonal shifts. These old-school glampers plan “to photograph elephants, not shoot them,” while preserving all the creature comforts: canvas bathtubs filled nightly by their guides, a “kerosene-powered ice maker” (because “you had to have a proper gin and tonic at the end of a long day on safari”) and proper beds set up in their tents.Īwards How Kaley Cuoco got ‘The Flight Attendant’ off the ground to play the heavy-drinking lead She’s beautiful and 30, and she has the means to bring along a robust entourage on her Serengeti trek: psychotherapist brother Billy and his pregnant wife Margie best friend and fellow actor Carmen and her aspiring-agent husband Felix her agent, director, and Terrance Dutton, her favorite co-star, who happens to be Black. Katie Barstow has reached the pinnacle: Not only is she a sought-after screen actor, she’s just married the love of her life, David Hill, a man she’s known since childhood who now works as a Los Angeles art gallerist.
And his new novel, “ The Lioness,” takes place in early 1960s East Africa during a Hollywood star’s honeymoon safari. “The Flight Attendant,” a contemporary thriller published in 2018, is now in its second season as an HBO Max series. His 2021 novel, “The Hour of the Witch,” about colonial Massachusetts, came out a year after “The Red Lotus,” about an American lost in contemporary Vietnam. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores.Ĭhris Bohjalian, bestselling author of 22 novels, manages something rare these days: He combines prolific output with bona fide range and originality.
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