Dear Exile
The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 27, 1999
A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time.
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- Who it’s for
- A wry, close-quarters read about friendship stretched across distance.
- Genres
- Personal Memoirs, Travel Writing, Friendship
- Published
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, April 27, 1999
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A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time. Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when Kate's Peace Corps assignment took her to Africa. Over the course of a single year, they exchanged an offbeat and moving series of letters from rural Kenya to New York City and back again.
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Kate, an idealistic teacher, meets unexpected realities ranging from poisonous snakes and vengeful cows to more serious hazards: a lack of money for education; a student body in revolt. Hilary, braving the singles scene in Manhattan, confronts her own realities, from unworthy suitors to job anxiety and first apartment woes. Their correspondence tells--with humor, warmth, and vivid personal detail--the story of two young women navigating their twenties in very different ways, and of the very special friendships we are sometimes lucky enough to find.
Friendship at Distance
A wry, close-quarters read about friendship stretched across distance.
Come here for
- Two-friend intimacy, with an ocean in the way
- Playful, discussable memoir energy
Expect
- Classroom- or book-club-friendly conversation
- A sustained narrative with emotional, not tidy, terrain
Where it sits
| Personal Memoirs | 80% |
|---|---|
| Friendship | 54% |
| Travel Writing | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Personal Memoirs
- Travel Writing
- Authors
- Hilary Liftin, Kate Montgomery
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- April 27, 1999
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Personal Memoirs