Love in the Driest Season
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Love in the Driest Season by Neely Tucker
In 1997 foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe. After witnessing the devastating consequences of AIDS and economic disaster on the country s children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage where a critically ill infant, abandoned in a field on the day she was born, was trusted to their care. Within weeks, Chipo, the baby girl whose name means gift, would come to mean everything to them. Their decision to adopt her, however, would challenge an unspoken social norm: that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo s true story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve.
Neely Tucker is the author of The Ways of the Dead, the first Sully Carter novel, and the memoir Love in the Driest Season, which was named one of the Best 25 Books of the Year by Publishers Weekly. Currently a staff writer at The Washington Post Sunday magazine, Tucker lives with his family in Maryland. From the Hardcover edition.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780609609767 |
| ISBN 10 | 0609609769 |
| Title | Love in the Driest Season |
| Author | Neely Tucker |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2004-02-17 |
| Number of pages | 242 |
| Prizes | Winner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2005, Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Adult Nonfiction) 2005 |
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