To the Volcano, and other storiesThese are stories of people caught up in a world that tilts seductively, sometimes dangerously, between south and north, between ambition and tradition, between light and dark. Her characters are poised to leave or on the point of returnoften caught in limbo, haunted by their histories and veering between possibilities. An African student in England longs for her desert home, a shy Argentinian travel agent agonises about joining her boyfriend in New