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Troost's take on the role of various aid agencies in distributing goodies to expatriate experts and local govt cum thugs agrees pretty well with mine, and I like him for that. But despite some very funny and humble stories about adjusting to island life, I'm rather disappointed that he doesn't really seem to interact with people on the island beyond a superficial level. He refers to all the teary-eyed people seeing them off as they leave, but I don't really know who those people would be, except
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This is a great book about the author's two-year stay in Kiribati. It is laugh-out-loud funny and yet the reader learns a lot at the same time. I will definitely be reading more books by Troost.
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Jul 25, 2009
Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance
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Sep 12, 2017
Terri
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