The Holy Land is a "Novel of sorts" about some 48 African Americans traveling through Egypt on a Educational Tour led by Dr. Fred Monderson, an Egyptologist, who uses some of his previous writings to engage his people with reading material as they go from site to site. The book is packed with a whole repertoire of experiences of the Tour Guide, from his class notes as a student at Hunter College of the City University of New York in the early 1970s,...