But for the months of the year when her family lived in the United States, this brave kid from the bush was cowed by the far more treacherous landscape of the preppy, private school social hierarchy She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn’t unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. The publisher, Grand Central Publishing, describes the memoir: The newly released Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs tells the fascinating story of Keena Roberts’ life growing up partly in her parents’ research station in the middle of an African reserve and then part time in an affluent American suburb.
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