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Sto caricando le informazioni... First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Lifedi Eve Brown-Waite
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 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. #278 Title: First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life Author: Eve Brown-Waite Publisher: Broadway Books Year: 2009 305 pages Brown-Waite's account of her Peace Corps and CARE experiences starts poorly but is worth sticking with. Either that or skip to the Uganda section. The memoir reads like two memoirs written at different times and in different styles. The first section, on her Peace Corps induction and placement in Ecuador, is told in what attempts to be a humorous, snappy tone; it reads as immature, brittle, and conversational in a way that suggests that this is the part of the narrative that made her friends tell her that she should write a book about her hilarious experience. The second part, on Uganda, is more mature and considered and holds my attention. Brown-Waite emphasizes her whininess throughout, which contributes a constant, low-grade irritation to the story. She does not really answer the questions most interesting to me, such as whether her earlier anxiety and panic returned, and if not, how she understands this. I'd also have liked to know more about her relationship with her husband in the domain of foreign service. Did she want to go to Uganda? She seems to have consistently worked in social and human services, but the interior process--what she thinks and feels about it, why she's moved to do it, the effects of moving closer to her husband's world view--are largely unspoken. I have a hard time identifying with the author, though we have some experiences and interests that are similar. However, for whatever reasons, my overseas service has been different from hers. I spent over a year without television, a car or bike, treats from the US, or new clothes. I ate vegetables and powdered chicken soup with rice because I had no oven and the meat looked creepy. I had no cappuccinos. I was also in a second world country, so the cultural contrasts were not as great. Sometimes that congruence was the problem, and I would make assumptions I wouldn't have made had it been more divergent. I'm not suggesting that I was better at having my experience than she, but rather describing it because I did not miss or fantasize about US luxuries, so it's hard for me to understand many of her areas of preoccupation. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In this hilarious memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him-- literally to the ends of the earth. Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without sushi, frothy coffee drinks and air conditioning. But with college diploma in hand, it was time to put up or shut up. So with some ambivalence she arrived at the Peace Corps office, sporting her best safari chic attire, to casually look into the steps one might take to become a global humanitarian, a la Angelina Jolie. But when Eve meets John, her dashing young Peace Corps recruiter, all her ambivalence flies out the window. She absolutely must join the Peace Corps and win John's heart in the process. After spending a year in the jungle in Ecuador, she runs back to the states, vowing to stay within easy reach of a decaf cappuccino for the rest of her days. Just as she's getting reacquainted with the joys of toilet paper, John gets a job with CARE and Eve must decide if she's up for life in another third world outpost. Before you can say, "pass the malaria prophylaxis," the couple heads off to Uganda, and the fun really begins-- if you call having rats in your toilet fun. Fortunately, in Eve's case you certainly can, because to her, every experience is an adventure to embrace and the pages come alive with all of the poignant and uproarious details. From intestinal parasites to getting caught in a civil war, culture clashes to unexpected friendships, First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria is an honest and laugh-out-loud look at Eve's misadventures as an aspiring do-gooder and her search for love and purpose, which she finds in the last place she expected. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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