Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean

Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean | Hilary Liftin, Kate Montgomery | Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful

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	Dear Exile : The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean Hilary Liftin, Kate Montgomery Vintage, 1999 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 55 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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. 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 realities ranging from poisonous snakes and vengeful cows to more serious hazards: a lack of money for education; a student body in revolt. Hilary, braving the singles scene in Manhattan, confronts her own realities, from unworthy suitors to job anxiety and first apartment woes. 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.

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Compelling, insightful, and funny.

This is about as perfect as a book can be. I won't recap the concept; plenty of other reviewers have summed it up. But I want to express my unbounded admiration for this book. I would never have imagined that a set of letters between friends could make for fascinating, hard-to-put-down reading, but this set of letters does. In spades. These women's lives are just plain interesting--Kate's, in part, because she's in a situation most of us know little or nothing about and Hilary's, in part, because she's in a situation most of us know all too well. There's more going on here, though, than just the fact of being interesting. The friendship between these two comes alive on the page; the insights about the world and about each other that the women reveal are meaningful; the wit each writer possesses is sharp and on target. I loved the book. I'm giving it to everyone I know for Christmas because they're all going to love it, too.

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Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful

A great book. I loved reading the letters between the two friends and their different styles of writing. I hope their friendship will always endure. I look foward to reading more by both. I've already read Candy and Me by Hilary. I hope to hear more from K8.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful

I'm going through the process of applying with the Peace Corps. I loved the candid nature of this book, and I found that it said a lot about friendship as well as the Peace Corps. This book is a quick read, and hard to put down. I appreciated having a window into one person's PC experience. And, I enjoyed identifying with the close friendship shared by these two women.

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Great Book

This is a great book. I don't read very much. It is hard for me to find a book that is really interesting to me, but this one kept my interest, and it kept me turning the pages. I really wanted to keep going to know what happens next.

This is a great gift too. After reading it, I sent it to my girlfriends because I think it says a lot about friendships.

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