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In this laugh-out-loud 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 safari
chic 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 she's up for life in another third-world outpost. Before
you can say, "pass the malaria prophylaxis," the couple heads off
to Uganda, and the fun really begins--if 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 do-gooder. From
intestinal parasites to getting caught in a civil war, culture
clashes to unexpected friendships, here is an honest and
laugh-out-loud funny look at the search for love and purpose-from a
woman who finds both in the last place she expected to find them.
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