The present article examines the connections to the reader woven by the multiple narrators of Lointaines. The collection of short-stories by Lise Gaboury-Diallo appeared in 2010; it is distinguished above all by its innovative approach to the themes of travel, of culture shock and of the unknown, even the unknowable. Each story is set in either Senegal or Mali and is recounted in either the first or third person. Even while “guiding” the reader for whom Africa is presumably somewhat foreign, the narrators leave sufficient space for the mysterious. Although the Franco-Manitoban traveler-narrator re-mains conscious of her incomplete understanding of the situations in which she finds herself, neither do the first-person narrators identified as local purport to explain their experiences in a definitive manner. The ambiguities ultimately extend to the refusal to neatly distinguish between that which is part of the quotidian and that which derives from the beyond. At the same time, the coexistence of multiple narrative voices echoes the respect for diversity which enables authentic expression.