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American Taboo: A Murder In The Peace Corpsby Philip WeissISBN 006009687X (0-06-009687-X)
Softcover, Perennial
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Chasing The Sea: Being a Narrative of a Journey Through Uzbekistan, Including Descriptions of Life Therein, Culminating with an Arrival at the Aral Sea, the World's Woby Tom BissellISBN 037572754X (0-375-72754-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Chasing the Sea : Lost among the Ghosts of Empire in Central Asiaby Tom BissellISBN 0375421300 (0-375-42130-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Come As You Are: The Peace Corps Storyby Coates RedmonISBN 0151194351 (0-15-119435-1)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (For a Year) by an Oceanby Kate Montgomery, Hilary LiftinISBN 0375703675 (0-375-70367-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Girls at Playby Paul TherouxISBN 0370014014 (0-370-01401-4)
Hardcover, Bodley Head
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A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Serviceby Peace Corps (U.S.)ISBN 0964447266 (0-9644472-6-6)
Softcover, Peace Corps
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Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicleby Moritz ThomsenISBN 0295969288 (0-295-96928-8)
Softcover, Univ of Washington Pr
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Loose Ends: A Playby Michael WellerISBN 0573611971 (0-573-61197-1)
Softcover, S. French
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Mango Elephants in the Sun : How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skinby Susana HerreraISBN 1570625727 (1-57062-572-7)
Softcover, Shambhala Publications, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mango Elephants in the Sun : How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin'Book summary:When the Peace Corps sends Susana Herrera to teach English in northern Cameroon, she yearns to embrace her adopted village and its people, to drink deep from the spirit of Mother Africaand to forget a bitter childhood and painful past. To the villagers, however, she's a rich American tourist, a nasara (white person) who has never known pain or want. They stare at her in silence. The children giggle and run away. At first her only confidant is a miraculously communicative lizard.
Susana fights back with every ounce of heart and humor she possesses, and slowly begins to make a difference. She ventures out to the village well and learns to carry water on her head. In a classroom crowded to suffocation she finds a way to discipline her students without resorting to the beatings they are used to. She makes ice cream in the scorching heat, and learns how to plant millet and kill chickens. She laughs with the villagers, cries with them, works and prays with them, heals and is helped by them.
Village life is hard but magical. Poverty is rampantyet people sing and share what little they have. The termites that chew up her bed like morning cereal are fried and eaten in their turn ("bite-sized and crunchy like Doritos"). Nobody knows what tomorrow may bring, but even the morning greetings impart a purer sense of being in the moment. Gradually, Susana and the village become part of each other. They will never be the same again.
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Matingby Norman RushISBN 067973709X (0-679-73709-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mating'Book summary:Had Jane Austen been in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1980s, Mating is the book she might have written. Set in Botswana in the days before the end of apartheid, Norman Rush's novel is, essentially, a comedy of manners played out in Austen's approved milieu: a country village. Granted, the village in question, Tsau, is a utopian society created by the great American anthropologist Nelson Denoon, and run largely by and for disenfranchised and abused African women. Still, the issue that interests Rush (and the one that fueled Austen's novels) is the age-old question of who mates with whom, and why? The unnamed narrator is a 32-year-old postgraduate student in anthropology whose dissertation has just gone south on her. Drifting around the edges of the expatriate community in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, she first meets Denoon:
He was smiling at Kgosetlemang--the event was to be considered over with, clearly--and I could tell that his gingivae were as good as mine; which is saying a lot. I attend to my gums. People in the bush don't always attend to their oral hygiene, not to mention other niceties. There was no sign of that here. I of course am fanatical about my gums because my idea of what the movie I Wake Up Screaming is about is a woman who has to keep dating to find her soulmate and she's had to get dentures. I have very long-range anxieties.
Entranced by this potential soulmate, our heroine strikes out into the Kalahari Desert with a couple of donkeys and follows him to his utopia where sexual attraction, regional politics, and social experimentation make for very strange bedfellows, indeed.Mating is a fiercely intelligent, hugely ambitious novel that takes on feminism, socialism, political corruption, foreign-sponsored rural development projects, and, yes, male-female relations in ways that are simultaneously hilarious and disturbing. Certainly Rush's language is a big part of what makes the novel work: the narrator's combination of elevated vocabulary and wacky non sequiturs is inspired. When, for example, Denoon explains to her that most of the women in Tsau are celibate and therefore so is he, she reflects that "of course the spiritus rector of a female community would need to be a sexual solitary, at least during the foundational period." She then wonders if "this situation was the analog of western series on television where the female watchership shrank to nothing when the producers let the marshal get married." Mating is remarkable for its wit, its acuity, and its ability to satirize without demeaning; it's also a heck of an entertaining story. Jane Austen would have been proud. --Alix Wilber [via]
Monique And the Mango Rains: Two Years With a Midwife in Maliby Kris Holloway, John BidwellISBN 1577664353 (1-57766-435-3)
Softcover, Waveland Pr Inc
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Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Villageby Sarah ErdmanISBN 0312423128 (0-312-42312-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village'Book summary:A portrait of a resilient African village, ruled until recently by magic and tradition, now facing modern problems and responding, often triumphantly, to change[via]
When Sarah Erdman, a Peace Corps volunteer, arrived in Nambonkaha, she became the first Caucasian to venture there since the French colonialists. But even though she was thousands of miles away from the United States, completely on her own in this tiny village in the West African nation of Côte d'Ivoire, she did not feel like a stranger for long.
As her vivid narrative unfolds, Erdman draws us into the changing world of the village that became her home. Here is a place where electricity is expected but never arrives, where sorcerers still conjure magic, where the tok-tok sound of women grinding corn with pestles rings out in the mornings like church bells. Rare rains provoke bathing in the streets and the most coveted fashion trend is fabric with illustrations of Western cell phones. Yet Nambonkaha is also a place where AIDS threatens and poverty is constant, where women suffer the indignities of patriarchal customs, where children work like adults while still managing to dream.
Lyrical and topical, Erdman's beautiful debut captures the astonishing spirit of an unforgettable community.More editions of Nine Hills to Nambonkaha: Two Years in the Heart of an African Village:
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Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past And Presentby Peter HesslerISBN 0060826584 (0-06-082658-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past And Present'Book summary:From the acclaimed author of River Town comes a rare portrait, both intimate and epic, of twenty-first-century China as it opens its doors to the outside world.
A century ago, outsiders saw Chinaas a place where nothing ever changes. Today the coun-try has become one of the most dynamic regions on earth. That sense of timethe contrast between past and present, and the rhythms that emerge in a vast, ever-evolving countryis brilliantly illuminated by Peter Hessler in Oracle Bones, a book that explores the human side of China's transformation.
Hessler tells the story of modern-day China and its growing links to the Western world as seen through the lives of a handful of ordinary people. In addition to the author, an American writer living in Beijing, the narrative follows Polat, a member of a forgotten ethnic minority, who moves to the United States in searchof freedom; William Jefferson Foster, who grew up in an illiterate family and becomes a teacher; Emily,a migrant factory worker in a city without a past; and Chen Mengjia, a scholar of oracle-bone inscriptions, the earliest known writing in East Asia, and a man whosetragic story has been lost since the Cultural Revolution. All are migrants, emigrants, or wanderers who find themselves far from home, their lives dramatically changed by historical forces they are struggling to understand.
Peter Hessler excavates the past and puts a remarkable human face on the history he uncovers. In a narrative that gracefully moves between the ancient and the present, the East and the West, Hessler captures the soul of a country that is undergoing a momentous change before our eyes.
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Planetary Service: A Way into the Third Milleniumby Eugen Rosenstock-HuessyISBN 0912148098 (0-912148-09-8)
Hardcover, Argo Books
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The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojournby Mike TidwellISBN 155821447X (1-55821-447-X)
Softcover, Lyons Pr
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River Town: Two Years on the Yangtzeby Peter HesslerISBN 0060855029 (0-06-085502-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze'Book summary:In 1996, 26-year-old Peter Hessler arrived in Fuling, a town on China's Yangtze River, to begin a two-year Peace Corps stint as a teacher at the local college. Along with fellow teacher Adam Meier, the two are the first foreigners to be in this part of the Sichuan province for 50 years. Expecting a calm couple of years, Hessler at first does not realize the social, cultural, and personal implications of being thrust into a such radically different society. In River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, Hessler tells of his experience with the citizens of Fuling, the political and historical climate, and the feel of the city itself.
"Few passengers disembark at Fuling ... and so Fuling appears like a break in a dream--the quiet river, the cabins full of travelers drifting off to sleep, the lights of the city rising from the blackness of the Yangtze," says Hessler. A poor city by Chinese standards, the students at the college are mainly from small villages and are considered very lucky to be continuing their education. As an English teacher, Hessler is delighted with his students' fresh reactions to classic literature. One student says of Hamlet, "I don't admire him and I dislike him. I think he is too sensitive and conservative and selfish." Hessler marvels,
You couldn't have said something like that at Oxford. You couldn't simply say: I don't like Hamlet because I think he's a lousy person. Everything had to be more clever than that ... you had to dismantle it ... not just the play itself but everything that had ever been written about it.
Over the course of two years, Hessler and Meier learn more they ever guessed about the lives, dreams, and expectations of the Fuling people.Hessler's writing is lovely. His observations are evocative, insightful, and often poignant--and just as often, funny. It's a pleasure to read of his (mis)adventures. Hessler returned to the U.S. with a new perspective on modern China and its people. After reading River Town, you'll have one, too. --Dana Van Nest [via]
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The Saddest Pleasure: A Journey on Two Riversby Moritz Thomsen, Paul TherouxISBN 1555971245 (1-55597-124-5)
Softcover, Graywolf Press
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Saviorsby Paul EggersISBN 0151003513 (0-15-100351-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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'Scuse Me While I Whip This Out: Reflections on Country Singers, Presidents, and Other Troublemakersby Kinky FriedmanISBN 0060539763 (0-06-053976-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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So You Want to Join the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Goby Dillon BanerjeeISBN 1580080979 (1-58008-097-9)
Softcover, Ten Speed Pr
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The Village of Waitingby George Packer, Philip GourevitchISBN 0374527806 (0-374-52780-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Village of Waiting'Book summary:Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the name means "wait a little more") in tiny and underdeveloped Togo, Packer reveals his own schooling at the hands of an unforgettable array of townspeople--peasants, chiefs, charlatans, children, market women, cripples, crazies, and those who, having lost or given up much of their traditional identity and fastened their hopes on "development," find themselves trapped between the familiar repetitions of rural life and the chafing monotony of waiting for change.[via] 
The Volunteerby Carter ColemanISBN 0446522031 (0-446-52203-1)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Whitesby Norman RushISBN 0394544714 (0-394-54471-4)
Softcover, Daedalus Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Whites'Book summary:In this magnificent collection of stories, Rush produces indelible portraits of Euro-American ex-patriates at loose ends in the black African republic of Botswana. The author's characters are unforgettable, while their predicaments are funny, improbably logical, and almost affecting as Africa itself. "Powerful and original."--New York Times. [via]
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