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3.75

Ursula Pike's experiences as a Native American Peace Corps volunteer in rural Bolivia was eye opening. It's definitely a needed voice in travel writing, and it's a humble voice that simultaneously recognises its own privilege within the context of LatAm. It was a personal story that I couldn't quite put down and I read it in one to two sittings. However, it did feel as though the end of the memoir focused completely on the personal love life of the author instead of looking at the community in which she was stationed. I wanted to know more about Teresa and Ximenita. What did they do everyday? Where did they go? What were their lives like? Perhaps I'm projecting my own unfair expectations on the very genre of memoir, but I was hoping this travel memoir would be more centred on others' stories, as the nature of a tourist-traveller is to exist within a liminal space that doesn't quite feel grounded. For that reason, this memoir felt like it never really started and never really ended. 

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