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elliebelly_93's review
5.0
This book is absolutely magical. It's funny and relatable and heartbreaking. The separate struggles that these woman go both bring me down and build me up.
gabyallcats's review
4.0
I enjoyed this book and was surprised by its bittersweet ending. If anyone else wants to read it, I'd be happy to pass it on. I had to get it online because my library didn't have it.
jessieweaver's review against another edition
2.0
This book is a collection of letters between two friends: one in NYC and one who is teaching in Africa. (It’s nonfiction.) I wasn’t blown away by it or anything, but it was interesting, especially to see the juxtaposition of the two.
wanderthroughthepages's review against another edition
5.0
Dear Exile was, simply put, a revealing collection of letters between two young women. Kate, struggling to live in Kenya while serving with the Peace Corps with her husband, had to battle things generally perceived as some of the worst injustices in the world: beating children for not scoring well on a test they weren't prepared for by their teachers, terrible sanitation in all ways possible, lack of decent food available to those surrounding them, and, possibly worst of all, the refusal to even try to do anything by those seen as authority figures. At the same time, Hilary struggles with finding her life in NYC - dating, bad neighbors, and getting a job she can go to every day without dreading at least one aspect of it.
Through all of their struggles, I found their separate but parallel storylines to be intriguing, funny, interesting, disgusting, and whole-heartedly too strange to be fiction. I loved this book and reading about the good and the bad of the life of then-PCV Kate Montgomery, especially as someone who is interested in applying for the Peace Corps at some point in the not-that-distant future.
Through all of their struggles, I found their separate but parallel storylines to be intriguing, funny, interesting, disgusting, and whole-heartedly too strange to be fiction. I loved this book and reading about the good and the bad of the life of then-PCV Kate Montgomery, especially as someone who is interested in applying for the Peace Corps at some point in the not-that-distant future.
abookishaffair's review against another edition
4.0
This is a good book about a true life friendship. It accounts the story of Kate and Hilary when Kate goes abroad in Kenya with the Peace Corps. The letters they write back and forth truly show a deep friendship between the two women.
birdsfly14's review against another edition
5.0
This may be my favorite book of all time. Maybe it was just the time I was reading it, but it spoke to me so specifically. I could have easily written this book about some of my friendships and separating when we went off to college and all of that. Plus, since it's written in letter form, it's easy to pick up and re-read just certain parts when you want. My friend and I sent this book back and forth to each other to read.
elliebellytabbycat's review against another edition
5.0
This book is absolutely magical. It's funny and relatable and heartbreaking. The separate struggles that these woman go both bring me down and build me up.
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