An American anthropologist is at a loose end in Botswana. She is ferociously intelligent and
wonderfully inquisitive. She is also in love with Nelson Denoon a charismatic intellectual who
runs an experimental women-only utopian village in the Kalahari. At times wildly comic but also
magnificently cerebral Mating is a profound exploration of the human condition and a moving
love story circling the question 'what do men and women really want?'
