The Village of Waiting by George Packer

The Village of Waiting

George Packer

352 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel reflective slow-paced

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Back in print, the "masterful" (The New York Times Book Review) account of an American in West AfricaNow restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, The Village of Waiting is a frank, moving, and vivi...

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