- SKU: 9781962834759
- BARCODE: 9781962834759
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Calling the Rain: A Memoir of an American Woman in Congo - Paperback
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Description
by Sandra Mahaniah (Author)
A young Midwestern woman falls in love, crosses continents, and builds a life in Congo-only to discover how love, politics, family, and history can change everything.
In Calling the Rain: Memoir of an American Woman in Congo, Sandra Mahaniah tells the extraordinary true story of leaving suburban America in the 1960s to marry a Congolese student and begin a new life in what was then Congo and later Zaire.
What begins as rebellion, idealism, and romance becomes something far more complex: an intimate portrait of intercultural marriage, motherhood, teaching, illness, political upheaval, and survival inside a country shaped by colonialism, Cold War intervention, Mobutu's rule, and the enduring strength of Kongo family and culture. Living not in an expatriate enclave but within her husband's world, Mahaniah records a side of Congo that rarely appears in news reports or history books-its beauty, its extended families, its rituals, its music, and the texture of daily life.
At once personal, historical, and deeply reflective, Calling the Rain is a powerful memoir of a woman's search for freedom, purpose, and belonging-and of the consequences of choices that echo across generations.
Perfect for readers interested in memoir, women's life writing, African history, Congo/Zaire, intercultural marriage, family survival, and literary nonfiction, this is a vivid and courageous account of one life lived far outside expectation.
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