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Essential Movement Only
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781508873730
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 8 2014
Pages: 312
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.65 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
After attending Berkeley and pursuing her career in law, Alyse meets and marries George, a diplomat whose assignments take the couple from one developing country to the next. Alyse's cousin Catherine foregoes marriage in favor of a career in medicine and chooses to raise a child, David, alone.
When Alyse and George go to a new place, Catherine and David follow, allowing Catherine to train midwives and educate women about their health. Wealthy patrons in San Francisco set up a foundation to underwrite the women's work in some of the most underserved and desperate places in the world.
When George receives an assignment in Afghanistan, Alyse worries that the country is so restrictive-and plagued by violence-that they cannot continue their work. But even after tragedy strikes, the foundation insists the cousins continue working in Afghanistan, leading Alyse and Catherine to pour themselves into the ravaged nation and its people at significant personal cost.
Essential Movement Only is an elegant and intelligent look at the costs of parallel war and development, the cultural barriers to effective relief work, and the strength of family in all its forms.
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