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Publishing details:
$11.00 (Can $17.95)
192 pages
0-375-70367-5
May featured original
Vintage Departures
Reading Group Guide available |
"These letters are
witty, real, charming, smart, touching, and amazingly unself-conscious.
Truly, Dear Exile was for me love at first word."
--Elinor Lipman, author of The Inn at Lake Devine.
"I love Dear Exile, and I love the women in it. I opened it one afternoon,
then just couldn't put it down. Here is a girlfriend relationship that I
actually recognize. Their humor, love and world view is to me, simply,
perfection."
--Whitney Otto, author of How to Make an American Quilt
A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a
friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time.
Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate
Montgomery promised to write when Kate's Peace Corps assignment took her to
Africa. Over the course of a single year, they exchanged an offbeat and
moving series of letters from rural Kenya to New York City and back again.
Kate, an idealistic teacher, meets unexpected realities ranging from
poisonous snakes and vengeful cows to more serious hazards: a lack of money
for education; a student body in revolt. Hilary, back in Manhattan,
confronts her own realities, from unworthy suitors to job anxiety and first
apartment woes. Their correspondence tells—with humor, warmth, and vivid
personal detail—the story of two young women navigating their twenties in
very different ways, and of the very special friendships we are sometimes
lucky enough to find. |
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