Love In The Driest Season

A Family Memoir

by Neely Tucker

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Foreign correspondent for the Washington Post Neely Tucker and his African-American wife, living in Zimbabwe, save the life of an abandoned baby girl and then formally adopt her--but only after a determined struggle with bureaucracy, racism, anti-Americanism, police harassment, and political upheaval.

Available editions of Love In The Driest Season

	9780609609767, Hardcover, Random House Inc, 2004 $1.00 (Used - Acceptable) Other copies of 9780609609767

	9781400081608, Paperback, Three Rivers Pr, 2005 $1.00 (Used - Very Good) Other copies of 9781400081608

Publisher Notes

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.

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"The resilient wit of Tucker's writing allows him, and the reader, to negotiate even the direst moments without despondency."

Customer Reviews

on May 10 2007, debralynngreen said:

"I found this book browsing and the title, cover and information I could read on the dust jacket intrigued me. This has to be one of my favorite stories I have ever read- a true story of a family from Detroit working in Africa. She volunteers at an orphanage and falls in love with one of the kids. It tells of the many problems she encounters trying to adopt as well as the conditions of the orphanage and the massive amount of deaths. Truly, a very touching story. "

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