Full name: At Home on the Kazakh Steppe: A Peace Corps Memoir

Author: Janet Givens Year: 2014 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Travel, Memoirs, Non Fiction Culture: Asia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads Barns&Noble LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781500622893 9781500708566 1500622893 1500708569

When a mid-fifties grandmother follows her husband of just three years into the Peace Corps, she leaves behind a promising new career, her home, two brand-new grandbabies, and her beloved dog. Assigned to Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country finding its own way after generations under Soviet rule, she too must find a way to be in a world different from what she knew. Feeling the stresses of a difficult new language, surprising cultural differences, and unexpected changes in her husband, Givens questions the loss of all she's given up. Will it be worth it? Similar books: Wild Swans by Jung Chang Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick The Beach by Alex Garland Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Dispatches by Michael Herr The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang Krakatoa by Simon Winchester Mao's Last Dancer by Li Cunxin The Places In Between by Rory Stewart Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng Seven Years in Tibet by Heinrich Harrer The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen The Aquariums of Pyongyang by Chol-hwan Kang Dear Leader by Jang Jin-sung Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Riding the Iron Rooster by Paul Theroux Iron and Silk by Mark Salzman The Way of the World by Nicolas Bouvier Vietnamese Home Cooking by Charles Phan Golden Boy by Martin Booth