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""I thought I was escaping war. Instead, I found my way home."" In the early 1970s, a wannabe hippie with a rootless, dysfunctional childhood searched for peace amid campus protests and cultural upheaval. Just weeks from earning her journalism degree, she faced a life-changing decision: let her new husband be drafted to Vietnam - or join him in the Peace Corps and leave the U.S. behind. Taking the Long Way Home: A Peace Corps Memoir of Brazil you is the true story of a young American couple's transformative journey to Northeast Brazil - a region still reeling from a failed revolution. There, amid intense heat, poverty, and beauty, they built a school, launched grassroots projects, and found themselves immersed in a world both foreign and deeply human.

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""This captivating memoir demonstrates how our lives are influenced by the way we traverse our different paths. It's an extraordinary articulation of a maturing life experience while engaging with a new primitive world as a Peace Corps volunteer. Taking the Long Way Home reflects energy, enthusiasm, idealism, and resilience."" Dr. Walt Menninger, Former President and CEO of The Menninger Clinic""Anne Spry vividly captures the tensions of a Peace Corps Volunteer navigating rural Brazilian life in the early 1970s in the service of community development. She clearly chronicles the language and cultural challenges, the essential interpersonal relationships amid personal agendas, accommodating both government and religious priorities, persevering through setbacks and misunderstandings, and more. The author's three-year assignment is a testament to her indefatigable persistence to problem solve and adapt while respecting the people in order to positively influence the quality of their lives."" -Ken Weaver, Peace Corps Volunteer, 1973, Philippines, rural public health; professor emeritus of psychology, Emporia State University ""Come along on Anne Spry's literal and emotional journey as a 1970s' Midwest anti-war activist to (in her words) ""do-gooder"" Peace Corps volunteer on the poor rural sugar plantations of Brazil. What she learns and how she grows as a woman and citizen of the world will fill you with admiration for this wise and talented writer."" -Ruth Maus, author of Lunacy And Acts of God

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