Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir

In 1997 foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe. After witnessing the devastating consequences of AIDS and economic disaster on the country s children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage where a critically ill infant, abandoned in a field on the day she was born, was trusted to their care. Within weeks, Chipo, the baby girl whose name means gift, would come to mean everything to them. Their decision to adopt her, however, would challenge an unspoken social norm: that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo s true story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve."

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
Published: 04/05/2005
ISBN: 9781400081608
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.02h x 5.26w x 0.69d
Award: Books for a Better Life - Winner

Review Citations: Ingram Advance 04/01/2005 pg. 45

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 83808 / Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
Reading Level: 7.4 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 13