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Gods of Noonday: A White Girl's African Life
Elaine Neil Orr
#UB6242
Paperback, 308 pages; 2003
$16.95
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I have found the truth about my life but it is not some fabulous revelation or some pure shining thing. Instead it is the mundane truth of a crazy mix of faith and accident, hope and boredom, love and privilege. I was an ordinary girl in extraordinary circumstances. Every girl is.
Born to American missionary parents in Nigeria in 1954, Elaine Neil Orr lived in Africa until her parents sent her back to the United States to finish high school. Eventually, Orr married, had a child, and became a professor of literature and creative writing at North Carolina State University. She also suffered gravely from diabetes, and, in facing her illness, she found herself longing for the country of her birth, realizing that she must "journey back in order to go forward." Gods of Noonday is a memoir of her childhood, and a love poem to the land she considers her home.
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