The Village of Waiting by George Packer

The Village of Waiting

George Packer

336 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction memoir travel reflective slow-paced

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Now restored to print with a new Foreword by Philip Gourevitch and an Afterword by the author, this book is a frank, moving, and vivid account of contemporary life in West Africa. Stationed as a Peace Corps instructor in the village of Lavié (the ...

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