From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding Love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.
A sensually rendered coming-of-age story in the tradition of Barbarian Days , Love, Africa is a tale of passion, violence, far-flung adventure, tortuous long-distance relationships, screwing up, forgiveness, parenthood, and happiness that explores the power of finding yourself in the most unexpected of places..
For the next decade he would be torn between these two abiding passions.
She became a criminal lawyer in America; he hungered to return to Africa.
To say they were opposites was an understatement.
But around that same time he also fell in Love with a fellow Cornell student--the brightest, classiest, most principled woman he\'d ever met.
On a do-it-yourself community service trip in college, he went to East Africa--a terrifying, exciting, dreamlike part of the world in the throes of change that imprinted itself on his imagination and on his heart.
At nineteen, Gettleman fell in love, twice.
For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling a teenage dream.
A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo.
From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding Love and finding a calling, set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world
