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This real-life epistolary narrative chronicles what happens between best friends, both women, when one embarks on a grueling Peace Corps stint in Kenya while the other tackles postcollegiate life in New York City. Dear Exile, by Hilary Liftin and Kate Montgomery, covers everything from Third World first-aid treatments (a village woman advises Montgomery to apply ''the medicine Colgate'' to her burned legs) to dating advice (''I will not speak about you re-sleeping with the unspeakable one.... He is Wrong and Bad and you will Stop''). All while delivering an articulate, heartfelt take on the rarity of true friendship. A-
Posted Jul 16, 1999
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