Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Substores
Book Type: Paperback
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Genres: Biographies & Memoirs, History, Substores
Book Type: Paperback
Have you ever read a book that was so good that you wanted to start all over and read it again? Dear Exile is one of those books for me.
Dear Exile is an epilisolatory memoir, a story told in letters. Kate & Hilary have been good friends since they were roommates at college. Hilary was the only witness at Kate courthouse wedding to David. When Kate and David go to Kenya for a year with the Peace Corp, Kate and Hillary begin a correspondence that eventually makes it into the pages of this book.
Kate's letters are written from the jungles of Kenya. There, she and David absorb the local culture (goat meat - yech!!!!!); adapt to no electicity and no refrigeration in an unbearably hot climate; boil, filter and drink suspiciously chunky water; and meet their neighbors as they struggle to teach English at schools.
Hilary's letters are writen from the urban jungle of New York City. There she struggles to build a career and meet a man she can love.
The letters are intelligent, entertaining, heart-warming, eye-opening, funny, sad and never never boring. I can't recommend this book highly enough!
Dear Exile is an epilisolatory memoir, a story told in letters. Kate & Hilary have been good friends since they were roommates at college. Hilary was the only witness at Kate courthouse wedding to David. When Kate and David go to Kenya for a year with the Peace Corp, Kate and Hillary begin a correspondence that eventually makes it into the pages of this book.
Kate's letters are written from the jungles of Kenya. There, she and David absorb the local culture (goat meat - yech!!!!!); adapt to no electicity and no refrigeration in an unbearably hot climate; boil, filter and drink suspiciously chunky water; and meet their neighbors as they struggle to teach English at schools.
Hilary's letters are writen from the urban jungle of New York City. There she struggles to build a career and meet a man she can love.
The letters are intelligent, entertaining, heart-warming, eye-opening, funny, sad and never never boring. I can't recommend this book highly enough!
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