Michael's review
American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps
by Philip Weiss
Michael's review
American Taboo: A Murder in the Peace Corps by Philip Weiss
Michael's review
rating:
This book is poorly written and I would only recommend it to someone who is somehow affiliate with the Peace Corps.
"America doesn't exist when you're here. Tonga doesn't exist when you're back, the older volunteers had told them. In no time they would pick up their lives. Their friends would lose interest in their stories, and the Kingdom would be as foreign as a hot shower was now. Then one day they'd open a drawer to discover something they had brought home, a tortoise shell bracelet, or a folded piece of Tapa, and they would wonder, did that really happen? what did it mean?"
"America doesn't exist when you're here. Tonga doesn't exist when you're back, the older volunteers had told them. In no time they would pick up their lives. Their friends would lose interest in their stories, and the Kingdom would be as foreign as a hot shower was now. Then one day they'd open a drawer to discover something they had brought home, a tortoise shell bracelet, or a folded piece of Tapa, and they would wonder, did that really happen? what did it mean?"
