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The Camel Bookmobile by Masha Hamilton follows Fiona "Fi" Sweeney, an American librarian, who moves to Kenya to start a traveling library in the rural African bush, aiming to bring Western literature to mostly illiterate communities. Amid mixed reactions, she learns the complexities of cultural differences, encounters local resistance, and becomes entangled in community and personal dramas in the village of Mididima. The novel includes themes of cultural conflict, traditional versus modern values, and the impacts of Western intervention in non-Western societies.