Archive for May 7, 2009
FIRST COMES LOVE, THEN COMES MALARIA by Eve Brown-Waite
In First Comes Love, Then Comes Malaria: How A Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart & A Third World Adventure Changed My Life, Ms. Brown-Waite first chronicles her life prior to joining the Peace Corps. Then she writes of her Peace Corps experience in the late 1980s, and finally she tells of her time with her husband, John, in Uganda, where he worked for CARE.
May 7, 2009
Tags: Africa, Ecuador, memoirs, Peace Corps Posted in: Book Club Choice, Ecuador, Memoir, Non-fiction, Uganda 
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THE FAMILY MAN by Elinor Lipman
In Elinor Lipman’s THE FAMILY MAN, Henry Archer is a recently retired and unattached attorney who happens to be gay. Henry has a shallow, self-centered, and grating ex-wife, Denise, whose third husband, Glenn Krouch, recently passed away at the age of seventy. All of a sudden, Denise tries to weasel her way back into Henry’s good graces.
May 7, 2009
Tags: Family Matters, fathers & daughters, hmh, Humorous, relationships Posted in: Contemporary, Family Relationships, Humorous, Women's Fiction No Comments
