![]() ![]() ![]() When secret riot drills at school are followed with an attack by rampaging students near his parents' mission station, Tim witnesses the disintegration of his family's African idyll as Haile Selassie's empire begins to crumble. Sent reluctantly to boarding school in the capital, young Tim finds that beyond the gates enclosing that peculiar, isolated world, conflict roils Ethiopian society. The unflinchingly observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary parents' struggles in a sometimes hostile country. an essential chronicle of midcentury American idealism." -Patricia Hampl, author of The Art of the Wasted Day In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. ![]() "Moves beyond a compelling personal story to shed radiant light on history itself . . . ![]()
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