Dear Exile: The Story of a Friendship Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 04/27/1999
ISBN: 9780375703676
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.22w x 0.60d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 03/08/1999 pg. 53
Booklist 03/15/1999 pg. 1287
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/1999 pg. 698
School Library Journal 11/01/1999 pg. 184
Library Journal 11/01/1999