Bobbi's review
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
by Neely Tucker
Bobbi's review
Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir by Neely Tucker
Bobbi's review
rating:
It must be Christmastime (oh, yeah, it is), but I'm getting very promiscuous with my stars! Honestly, this story and the way that it is told deserve five stars.
Neely Tucker was a single man, living for himself, trotting around the globe as a reporter, when love found him -- twice. First, he met and married an amazing woman who followed him and his career to Africa. The fact that she was black and he was white meant different things to their families and friends back home, and led to many interesting events in Africa.
The book is the story of her charity work with African orphanages, which are bursting at the seams and functioning on not much more than love and hope in the wake of the burgeoning AIDS epidemic. That charity work led them to an abandoned newborn girl named Chipo ("light"). The story of how she became their daughter -- and transformed the author from an essentially selfish man to a father in ...more
Neely Tucker was a single man, living for himself, trotting around the globe as a reporter, when love found him -- twice. First, he met and married an amazing woman who followed him and his career to Africa. The fact that she was black and he was white meant different things to their families and friends back home, and led to many interesting events in Africa.
The book is the story of her charity work with African orphanages, which are bursting at the seams and functioning on not much more than love and hope in the wake of the burgeoning AIDS epidemic. That charity work led them to an abandoned newborn girl named Chipo ("light"). The story of how she became their daughter -- and transformed the author from an essentially selfish man to a father in ...more
