6-5-10 Mango Elephants in the Sun by Susana Herrera - Non-Fiction

4 - Susana Herrera spent two years working for the Peace Corps in the village of Guidiguis in northern Cameroon. This book tells her story from her first night to her final day. As an American and a white woman she was considered an outsider but she found her inner courage and learned to survive in a desert. By the time she left, she had two "adopted" sons and a Fulfulde family. Included in the story are letters she wrote to her mother which tend to be humorous just in the descriptions of what she misses and how everyday things are done in the village. For Herrera, this was a spiritual and cultural journey. Her descriptions of the people are vivid and emotionally capture the reader. Glad I randomly picked this one up.