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A review by fulltimefiction
Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and Out of Humanitarian Aid by Jessica Alexander
4.0
I loved this book! I have a difficult time reading non-fiction but I couldn’t put this one down, I guess because I’m very interested in its topic. I wish Chasing Chaos was longer, wanted to know more of Alexander’s experience in the field instead of her personal life (this definitely made the book more “fiction like” to me but in this case, and maybe easier to read but I only wanted to know more about the facts, events, programs, and hardships they faced in executing them).
I would recommend this book:
1- if you’re interested in the lives of humanitarian aid workers and humanitarian work and don’t know a lot about it.
2- if you want to become one.
It certainly offered new information -to me- on the lives of aid workers and what they experience. Now I’m trying to find every interesting book on aid work out there. But if you’re experienced and knowledgeable on these matters, you probably won’t enjoy it. This is my first and that’s probably why I found it so fascinating.
I was very curious regarding which NGOs she worked for and her trips after she decided to settle down. I wish she elaborated more on these things.
I would recommend this book:
1- if you’re interested in the lives of humanitarian aid workers and humanitarian work and don’t know a lot about it.
2- if you want to become one.
It certainly offered new information -to me- on the lives of aid workers and what they experience. Now I’m trying to find every interesting book on aid work out there. But if you’re experienced and knowledgeable on these matters, you probably won’t enjoy it. This is my first and that’s probably why I found it so fascinating.
I was very curious regarding which NGOs she worked for and her trips after she decided to settle down. I wish she elaborated more on these things.