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Author:

Crouch, Katie, author.

Title:

Embassy wife / Katie Crouch.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

366 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Diplomats' spouses--Fiction.
Married people--Fiction.
Americans--Namibia--Fiction.
Secrecy--Fiction.
Namibia--Fiction.
Humorous fiction.

Summary:

"A satirical page-turner following two women abroad searching for the truth about their husbands -- and their country"-- Provided by publisher.
"Meet Persephone Wilder, a displaced genius posing as the wife of an American diplomat in Namibia. Persephone takes her job as a representative of her country seriously, coming up with an intricate set of rules to survive the problems she encounters: how to dress in hundred-degree weather without showing too much skin, how not to look drunk at embassy functions, and how to eat roasted oryx with grace. She also suspects her husband is not actually the ambassador's legal counsel but a secret agent in the CIA. The consummate embassy wife, she takes the newest trailing spouse, Amanda Evans, under her wing. Amanda arrives in Namibia mere weeks after giving up her Silicon Valley job so her husband, Mark, can have his family close by as he works on his Fulbright project. But once they're settled in the sub-Saharan desert, Amanda sees clearly that Mark, who lived in Namibia two decades earlier, has other reasons for returning. Back in the safety of home, the marriage had seemed solid; in the glaring heat of the Kalahari, it feels tenuous. And the situation grows even more fraught when their daughter becomes involved in an international conflict and their own government won't stand up for her. How far will Amanda go to keep her family intact? How much corruption can Persephone ignore? And what, exactly, does it mean to be an American abroad when you're not sure you understand your country anymore? Propulsive and provocative, Embassy Wife asks what it means to be a human in this world, even as it helps us laugh in the face of our own absurd, seemingly impossible states of affairs." -- Book jacket.

ISBN:

0374280347
9780374280345

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1182583989

LCCN:

2021005690

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

DYPD423 -- Eldora Public Library (Eldora)

FMPC224 -- Guttenberg Public Library (Guttenberg)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

KOPC446 -- H.J. Nugen Public Library (New London)

GMPD771 -- Pleasant Hill Public Library (Pleasant Hill)

JKPC771 -- Polk City Community Library (Polk City)

XAPE737 -- Shenandoah Public Library (Shenandoah)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

WSPF215 -- Spencer Public Library (Spencer)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)