How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed My Life
In this laughoutloud funny memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over little black heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him literally to the ends of the earth.
Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday, although she secretly worried about life without sushi, frothy coffee drinks, and air conditioning. But with college diploma in hand, it was time to put up or shut up. So with some ambivalence she arrives at the Peace Corps office sporting her best safarichic attire to casually look into the steps one might take if one were to become a global humanitarian, a la Angelina Jolie.
But when Eve meets John, her dashing young Peace Corps recruiter, all her ambivalence flies out the window. She absolutely must join the Peace Corps and win John's heart in the process. Off to Ecuador she goes and after a year in the jungle back to the States she runs, vowing to stay within easy reach of a decaf cappuccino for the rest of her days. But life had other plans. Just as she's getting reacquainted with the joys of toilet paper, John gets a job with CARE and Eve must decide if shes up for life in another thirdworld outpost. Before you can say, "pass the malaria prophylaxis," the couple heads off to Uganda, and the fun really beginsif one can call having rats in your toilet fun.
Fortunately, in Eve's case one certainly can, because to her, every experience is an adventure to be embraced, and these pages come alive with all of the alternatively poignant and uproarious details.
With wit and candor, First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria chronicles Eve's misadventures as an aspiring dogooder. Here is an honest and laughoutloud funny look at the search for love and purpose from a woman who finds both in the last place she expected.
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Sir Cliff Richard OBE is the biggestselling artist of all time, selling over 250 million records. But how has he kept his appeal all these years.....
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Dickie Bird is not only the world's most famous cricket umpire, he is also one of the most entertaining public speakers of our time....
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Classrooms were never sufficient for Jared Cohen; he wanted to learn about global affairs by witnessing them firsthand....
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For 12 years, deaf comedienne Kathy Buckley has been bringing her life story to hundreds of thousands through her standup comedy as well as her motivational speaking....
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It was a great story. A true story. The kind of story any news producer would love to report, nail down, and get on the air....
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The stories in this collection reflect an appreciation for traditional ways, but they also beguile the listener with that most enchanting of Southern traits, a keen sense of humor....
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For two years before she left Iran in 1997, Nafisi gathered seven young women at her house every Thursday morning to read and discuss forbidden works of Western literature....
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39 Years of ShortTerm Memory Loss is a seriously funny, offbeat, and irreverent memoir that chronicles the early days of Saturday Night Live and features some of its greatest personalities....
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Critically acclaimed poet Alex Happy Lemon takes listeners on a journey of addiction, tragedy, and survival in this memoir.....
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The name of Madame Tussaud is famous throughout the world, yet few people know the fascinating story of her life in Paris during the French revolution....
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