Opere di Eve Brown-Waite
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Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Deerfield, Massachusetts, USA
Utenti
Recensioni
First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace… di Eve Brown-Waite
Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing.Previously reviewed, but alas that review vanished when I almost immediately ditched First Comes Love. It details the author’s life and experiences with her husband in the Peace Corps. Unfortunately, she was trying too hard. The first chapter jumps in with a detailed sex scene that seems really wrong and out of place. I suppose someone told her this would be a hook. They were wrong. It was disappointing.
The cover and title are misleading. This book is more culturally sensitive and aware than I expected. Detailed description of culture shock and adaptation make the book worth reading. The author does not spend much time describing the places or cultures she interacts with. But she is refreshingly honest about her reactions to the disorientation and frustration of dealing with a totally unfamiliar culture and the addictive qualities of "aid" work.
I love this type of book. These are the experiences I would have wanted for myself if I had it together as a young adult. For the adventure and to have some altruistic meaning to my life. But I read about other people living the life I would have wished for myself.
In this particular book we go on a journey with Eve as she grows from a whining 20 year old to a mom and wife...not in that particular order. She grows into a lovely woman, a far cry from her self absorbed younger self in Eucedor to the multi faceted person in Uganda.
Fair read for armchair adventurers.… (altro)
In this particular book we go on a journey with Eve as she grows from a whining 20 year old to a mom and wife...not in that particular order. She grows into a lovely woman, a far cry from her self absorbed younger self in Eucedor to the multi faceted person in Uganda.
Fair read for armchair adventurers.… (altro)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 1
- Utenti
- 196
- Popolarità
- #111,885
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 43
- ISBN
- 3
