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A review by emurph09
Dear Exile: The Story of a Friendship Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean by Kate Montgomery, Hilary Liftin
emotional
funny
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Quotes
« Children will drop everything to start chasing after me yelling, « mzungu, mzungu ! » … sometimes, though, the child will run so hard and so long, it feels like desperation — rich, white tourist, help me. »
« Children will drop everything to start chasing after me yelling, « mzungu, mzungu ! » … sometimes, though, the child will run so hard and so long, it feels like desperation — rich, white tourist, help me. »
« i commute out of the city — away from all my friends and the places I know — to work in a sterile office at an ill-defined new job in a big, generic office building on a highway in Westchester. »
« i had thought I wanted to be the kind of person who really ‘embraces’ a culture. Now I don’t think so. I know now, for example, that I’m not interested in exploring whether or not brutality improves education, or whether or not subservience in women improved marriages. On these topics, my mind is not open. »