Dear Exile: The True Story of Two Friends Separated (for a Year) by an Ocean-Quality Guarantee

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A funny and moving story told through the letters of two women nurturing a friendship as they are separated by distance, experience, and time.

Close friends and former college roommates, Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery promised to write when Kate’s Peace Corps assignment took her to the course of a single year, they exchanged an offbeat and moving series of letters from rural Kenya to New York City and back again.

Kate, an idealistic teacher, meets unexpected realities ranging from poisonous snakes and vengeful cows to more serious hazards: a lack of money for education; a student body in , braving the singles scene in Manhattan, confronts her own realities, from unworthy suitors to job anxiety and first apartment correspondence tells–with humor, warmth, and vivid personal detail–the story of two young women navigating their twenties in very different ways, and of the very special friendships we are sometimes lucky enough to find.