A review by ktringali
Embassy Wife by Katie Crouch

2.0

I felt compelled to read this book because the jacket read almost like a description of The Poisonwood Bible, and I had never read a book set in Nambia. I hoped for a meaningful story about Namibian people; instead this book was VERY focused on the white American characters and held the Namibian characters as secondary/reliant on the Americans. Very white savior and viewed through a white lens (so much of the book focuses on how much the Americans don’t like the country or the customs). The end felt like it wrapped up well though, so gave it 2 stars whereas the majority of the book was around 1 or 1.5 stars.