Love Africa

<p><strong>From Jeffrey Gettleman a Pulitzer Prize-winning <em>New York Times</em> journalist comes a passionate revealing story about finding love and finding a calling set against one of the most turbulent regions in the world.</strong></p><p>A seasoned war correspondent Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For the past decade he has served as the East Africa bureau chief for the <em>New York Times </em> fulfilling a teenage dream.</p><p>At nineteen Gettleman fell in love twice. On a do-it-yourself community service trip in college he went to East Africa--a terrifying exciting dreamlike part of the world in the throes of change that imprinted itself on his imagination and on his heart.</p><p>But around that same time he also fell in love with a fellow Cornell student--the brightest classiest most principled woman he'd ever met. To say they were opposites was an understatement. She became a criminal lawyer in America; he hungered to return to Africa. For the next decade he would be torn between these two abiding passions.</p><p>A sensually rendered coming-of-age story in the tradition of <em>Barbarian Days</em> <em>Love Africa</em> is a tale of passion violence far-flung adventure tortuous long-distance relationships screwing up forgiveness parenthood and happiness that explores the power of finding yourself in the most unexpected of places.</p>