A Tooth in My Popsicle

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>What happens when an award-winning American journalist leaves California for the southern Philippines to begin again?</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>After losing his longtime job at the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Los Angeles Times</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and growing weary of rising costs and life in the United States David Haldane and his Filipino wife Ivy make a radical choice: leave America behind and build a new life in Mindanao the place she once called home.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>What follows is funny moving bewildering and unforgettable.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In these lively personal essays Haldane writes about culture shock family faith food marriage immigration construction disasters tropical setbacks island beauty and the daily surprises of becoming part of a world that is at once foreign and deeply welcoming. Along the way he and Ivy renew their vows on Siargao Island build a dream home overlooking the sea navigate illness bureaucracy power outages parenthood and the emotional complexity of starting over in another country.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Warm witty and deeply human </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A Tooth in My Popsicle</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a memoir-in-essays about love reinvention cross-cultural marriage and what it means to find home in an unexpected place.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Perfect for readers who enjoy travel memoirs expat stories cultural essays and humorous nonfiction about rebuilding a life abroad.</span></p>