Love, Africa by Jeffrey Gettleman 2017 Unabridged CD 9781538418260

Description: From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer-prize winning New York Times journalist, comes a memoir about finding love and finding a calling in one of the most violent and yet most beautiful places in the world.A seasoned war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade, he has served as the East Africa Bureau chief for the New York Times, fulfilling his teenage dream of living in Africa. Love, Africa is the story of how he got there—and of his difficult, winding towards becoming a good reporter and a better man. At nineteen, Gettleman fell in love—twice. On a community service trip in college, he went to Africa, a terrifying, exciting, dreamlike continent in the throes of change that imprinted itself on his imagination and heart. One day, he vowed, he would return there, to stay. But around the same time he also fell in love with Courtenay, a fellow Cornell student, the brightest, fiercest, kindest woman he had ever met. Courtenay became a lawyer in America, and all Gettleman wanted was to be with her. But he also hungered to be in Africa. For the next decade he would waver between these two abiding passions. Finally, after a great deal of growing up, he learned to be honest with himself about what he wanted—a realization that ultimately fulfilled both of his deepest desires. A beautifully rendered coming-of-age story in the tradition of Barbarian Days, Love, Africa is a tale o

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