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Title: Mango Elephants in the Sun : How Life in an African Village Let Me Be in My Skin by Susana Herrera ISBN: 1-57062-572-7 Publisher: Shambhala Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.23 (13 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Nice writing, not Peace Corps
Comment: Five of us, all Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, read this book together. Our consensus view: Herrera can write but the book is more about how her time in Cameroon fits in her life than about being a Peace Corps Volunteer. If you want a book that will provide a view of what being a Peace Corps Volunteer is like you should read a different book. If you want an interesting, well written book this is a good choice.
Rating: 5
Summary: Lovely and enchanting, Susana Herrera has a way with words.
Comment: As a Peace Corps volunteer just three years home, I haven't been inspired to read other volunteers' experiences because of the intensity of my own. However, one of my professors loaned this book to me thinking that since Susana was in the Peace Corps in Africa as I was, I would be interested in reading it. It turns out that I was. She has a beautiful way of expressing what happens to lots of volunteers; the fear, the confusion, the coming to terms with oneself and one's surroundings, the eventual pride in oneself for sticking it out in the most difficult of situations. I suggest that former volunteers pick this one up. If you haven't already come to terms with your experience, this book will put you on the road.
Rating: 2
Summary: Light Read, But Not Memorable
Comment: This book was interesting, but after reading the Peace Corps novel by Peter Hessler, this one just did not compare.
I was not impressed by the style of the writing, the book was organized around journal entries and poems that the author wrote. It just left the book feeling empty and contrived.
It seems like the author was most concerned with getting to know herself through her journal entries, which is entirely understandable, as most of us would do the same. However, I just don't think there is enough interesting material about herself to justify my time in a novel.
I wanted to get to know the Peace Corps experience and her country better, but feel like I only got to explore her thoughts and feelings rather than a deeper connect with something that would interest a third party.
She is definitely a great person and someone that would be great to be friends with, but it is not really worth reading a whole book about her journal entries.
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Title: Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle by Moritz Thomsen ISBN: 0295969288 Publisher: University of Washington Press Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.09 |
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Title: The Village of Waiting by George Packer ISBN: 0374527806 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: So You Want to Join the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go by Dillon Banerjee ISBN: 1580080979 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Ponds of Kalambayi by Mike Tidwell ISBN: 155821447X Publisher: The Lyons Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Nine Hills to Nambonkaha : Two Years in the Heart of an African Village by Sarah Erdman ISBN: 0805073817 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 03 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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