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Love in the Driest Season : A Family Memoir par Neely Tucker (2004, HC/DJ) SIGNÉ
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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9780609609767
À propos de ce produit
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0609609769
ISBN-13
9780609609767
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2327077
Product Key Features
Book Title
Love in the Driest Season : a Family Memoir
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Children's Studies, General, Adoption & Fostering
Publication Year
2004
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Family & Relationships, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2002-154095
Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
"A triumph of heart and will." -O, the Oprah Magazine "An extraordinary book of immense feeling and significant social relevance.Love in the Driest Seasonchallenges anyone-even those numbed by the world's abundant cruelty-not to care." -Washington Post "Unceasingly compelling and filled with soaring highs and lows,Love in the Driest Seasonis a remarkable memoir of love and family." -Pages "A gorgeous mix of family memoir and reportage that traverses the big issues of politics, racism, and war." -Publishers Weekly(starred review) "Utterly heartfelt and truly inspiring." -Booklist(starred review) "Tucker's hard-hitting memoir . . . is an almost unbelievable tale of bureaucracy, lunacy, and love. The suspense is stomach-wrenching and infuriating." -Orlando Sentinel From the Trade Paperback edition.
Dewey Decimal
362.73/4/096891
Synopsis
Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997. After witnessing firsthand the devastating consequences of AIDS on the population, especially the children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage that was desperately underfunded and short-staffed. One afternoon, a critically ill infant was brought to the orphanage from a village outside the city. She'd been left to die in a field on the day she was born, abandoned in the tall brown grass that covers the highlands of Zimbabwe in the dry season. After a near-death hospital stay, and under strict doctor's orders, the ailing child was entrusted to the care of Tucker and Vita. Within weeks Chipo, the girl-child whose name means gift, would come to mean everything to them. Still an active correspondent, Tucker crisscrossed the continent, filing stories about the uprisings in the Congo, the civil war in Sierra Leone, and the postgenocidal conflict in Rwanda. He witnessed heartbreaking scenes of devastation and violence, steeling him further to take a personal role in helping anywhere he could. At home in Harare, Vita was nursing Chipo back to health. Soon she and Tucker decided to alter their lives foreverthey would adopt Chipo. That decision challenged an unspoken social normthat foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Raised in rural Mississippi in the sixties and seventies, Tucker was familiar with the mores associated with and dictated by race. His wife, a savvy black woman whose father escaped the Jim Crow South for a new life in the industrial North, would not be deterred in her resolve to welcome Chipo into their loving family. As if their situation wasn't tenuous enough, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe was stirring up national fervor against foreigners, especially journalists, abroad and at home. At its peak, his antagonizing branded all foreign journalists personae non grata. For Tucker, the only full-time American correspondent in Zimbabwe, the declaration was a direct threat to his life and his wife's safety, and an ultimatum to their decision to adopt the child who had already become their only daughter. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo's story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that loveand dogged determinationcan sometimes achieve. Gripping, heartbreaking, and triumphant, this family memoir will resonate throughout the ages. From the Hardcover edition.
LC Classification Number
HV875.5.T83 2003
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