Souvenirs by Julia Lauer-Cheene

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	• Souvenirs Julia Lauer-Cheenne Community Press, 2007 - 180 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

a serious reader

A touching, but doomed love story between a naive young American and an African man told against the backdrop of 1970s Ivory Coast. In every nuanced detail, this author illustrates her command of not only language but her understanding of the human heart.

A Great Read

A spiritual journey of love and self discovery, Ruth and Kwassi's story is

moving and expansive. There's magic, mystery and tropical heat that burns

up the page. It's a poetic meditation on youth, idealism and the power to

heal. A lovely first novel that resonates long after the last page.

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A great read

Souvenirs is that rarest of novels, powerfully exploring our shared humanity while at the same time acknowledging the deep rifts that divide us. In spare but sensual prose, the book examines a cross-cultural love affair and the experience of living in a foreign culture. Ruth and Kwassi are memorable characters, and you can't help but pull for them and want things to work out. What happens to them, and between them, is wonderfully rendered and will live on in your memory well after the final page. I highly recommend the book.

Souvenirs by Julia Lauer-Cheene

Julia Lauer-Cheene's Souvenirs is a wonderfully refreshing account of a young woman's experience serving in the Peace Corps in the 1960's. What is remarkable about Lauer-Cheene's writing is her ability to describe so vividly. One can literally feel the oppressive humidity and heat as she refers to and describes it. When Ruth, the main character, burns her leg on her motorbike, the reader feels the pain. Souvenirs is a book that one never wants to end. There is the feeling of having lost a fascinating friend when closing the final page.

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marlyswick

An absorbing, heartfelt story of a young female Peace Corps volunteer who arrives in Africa fresh from college in the Midwest, unprepared for the emotional complexity and intensity that awaits her.

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During the mid seventies Ruth travels to the tropical jungle of Africa's Ivory Coast to begin her service in the Peace Corps. She meets Ivorian school teacher, Kwassi, and finds herself unable to resist his charms. Little does Ruth know about Kwassi's future as tribal leader and inheritor of the secret healing power of the Séképoné. While she fights to understand the complex web of his culture's magic and mystery, Kwassi becomes a victim of his own spells and falls more deeply in love with Ruth. As lovers, they spiral into a web of contradictions, clashes of culture, and misperception. As individuals, they struggle to accept their separate destinies before it is too late.

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