Peace Like a Monkey: And Other Tales of Life in Tanzania - Softcover

Plotkin, Marya K

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997448474 ISBN 13: 9780997448474

Publisher: Lystra Books & Literary Services, LLC, 2017

Synopsis

In her collection of essays, Peace Like a Monkey, Marya Plotkin brings her experience living and working in Tanzania home to the U.S. Her humor, empathy, tenderness, and insight bring East Africa to life for readers. Her visit to a nail salon turns into a lesson in the challenges of delivering health care in an impoverished country then into a story about the importance of personal connection. She and colleagues disregard the cynical wisdom that the person who appears to be injured by the side of the road may be a robber waiting for a sympathetic passer-by, and prove that the urge to be kind should prevail. She loses a valued book, only to find it months later, far from the place it went missing, and spins a tale of its travels that illustrates the flow of things and people in a world that values connection above all else. And then there is the monkey.

About this title

About the Author

Marya Plotkin first went to Africa when she was 16, a teenager on an adventure, and those adventures became formative life lessons. Years later, she lived and worked in Tanzania, found a home and started a family there. Now back in the U.S., she thinks and writes about what she learned. She lives in Chapel Hill, NC, with her two sons.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lystra Books & Literary Services, LLC
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997448474
• ISBN 13: 9780997448474
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 124