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Taking the Long Way Home : A Peace Corps Memoir of Brazil

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"I thought I was escaping war. Instead, I found my way home."

In the early 1970s, a wannabe hippie with a rootless, dysfunctional childhood searched for peace amid campus protests and cultural upheaval. Just weeks from earning her journalism degree, she faced a life-changing decision: let her new husband be drafted to Vietnam - or join him in the Peace Corps and leave the U.S. behind.

Taking the Long Way Home: A Peace Corps Memoir of Brazil you is the true story of a young American couple's transformative journey to Northeast Brazil - a region still reeling from a failed revolution. There, amid intense heat, poverty, and beauty, they built a school, launched grassroots projects, and found themselves immersed in a world both foreign and deeply human.

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  • ISBN-13: 9781966323303
  • ISBN-10: 1966323301
  • Publisher: Flint Hills Publishing
  • Publish Date: August 2025
  • Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.63 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.88 pounds
  • Page Count: 216

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