Dear Exile
by Hilary Liftin, Kate Montgomery
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A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when Kate's Peace Corps assignment took her to Africa.nbsp;nbsp;Over the course of a single year, they exchanged an offbeat and moving series of letters from rural Kenya to New York City and back again. Kate, an idealistic teacher, meets unexpected show more realities ranging from poisonous snakes and vengeful cows to more serious hazards: a lack of money for education; a student body in revolt.nbsp;nbsp;Hilary, braving the singles scene in Manhattan, confronts her own realities, from unworthy suitors to job anxiety and first apartment woes.nbsp;nbsp;Their correspondence tells--with humor, warmth, and vivid personal detail--the story of two young women navigating their twenties in very different ways, and of the very special friendships we are sometimes lucky enough to find. show lessTags
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These letters between best friends were entertaining, fun, and, one certain levels, educational. They're written with honesty and humor. I was glad I'd never felt the need to join the Peace Corps and travel to Kenya and even more glad that I'm not part of the dating scene.
The friendship of Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery shines through in their letters exchanged over the course of a year. Though Liftin is working in Manhantan and Montgomery is serving in the Peace Corps in Africa, they maintain a regular correspondence through which they express joy and sadness, heartbreak and humor.
I have always thought about joining the Peace Corps, but when I finished reading this book I wanted to even more. I have a best friend and I think our story is similar to the two in this story. I think the letters are heartfelt and touching. I wish the letters would have contained more substance, but I am sure when they were writing them they didn't plan on them being published. I was happy with the glimpse I did get.
one of many peace corps memoirs i read when i was considering joining.
This is a series of letters between two friends when one of them was in the Peace Corps in Kenya. Very interesting.
A collection of letters between two women as one spends a year with the Peace Corps in Kenya and the other braves life in Manhattan.
Recommended by: Julie
Recommended by: Julie
true story of 2 friends separated by an ocean (for one year); letters
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Hilary Liftin is a ghostwriter/collaborator specializing in celebrity memoir. She was born in New York City in 1969 and is a graduate of Yale University. She worked for Houghton Mifflin, Barnes & Noble.com, and Time Warner Books (now Hachette) in the areas of editorial, marketing, and business development. Since 2006, she has been a full-time show more writer. Her celebrity memoirs includes Stori Telling by Tori Spelling, which became a New York Times nonfiction bestseller and won the 2009 Bravo A-List Award for Best Celebrity Autobiography, Miles to Go by Miley Cyrus, High on Arrival by Mackenzie Phillips, and It's All Too Much by Peter Walsh. She and co-author Kate Montgomery wrote Dear Exile. Candy and Me: A Love Story is her own memoir. She and James Patterson are co-authors the bestseller, $10,000,000 Marriage Proposal. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Dear Exile
- Important places
- Africa; East Africa; Kenya; New York, USA; New York, New York, USA
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- Reviews
- 7
- Rating
- (3.65)
- Languages
- English, German
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 6
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