Told with great insight, compassion, and wit, Letters Home: Pictures from Niger is a fascinating collection of short "vignettes" based on letters sent to family back in Canada during the seven years the author, his wife, Joanna, and their four children lived in Niamey, Niger's capital city.
These vignettes-in turn, heartfelt, informative, funny, and poignant-touch upon everything from agricultural innovation and dust storms to the author's relationship with his Nigerin colleagues, and from the unending challenge of learning French and local languages to a Kafkaesque saga of repairing a washing machine.
The experience of cross-cultural living led to the internalization of new norms and values and a very different, and much deeper, understanding of both foreign aid and the true meaning of spirituality.
Told with great insight, compassion, and wit, Letters Home: Pictures from Niger is a fascinating collection of short "vignettes" based on letters sent to family back in Canada during the seven years the author, his wife, Joanna, and their four children lived in Niamey, Niger's capital city.
These vignettes-in turn, heartfelt, informative, funny, and poignant-touch upon everything from agricultural innovation and dust storms to the author's relationship with his Nigerin colleagues, and from the unending challenge of learning French and local languages to a Kafkaesque saga of repairing a washing machine.
The experience of cross-cultural living led to the internalization of new norms and values and a very different, and much deeper, understanding of both foreign aid and the true meaning of spirituality.
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