Taking the Long Way Home

<p><strong>I thought I was escaping war. Instead I found my way home.</strong></p><p></p><p>In the early 1970s a wannabe hippie with a rootless dysfunctional childhood searched for peace amid campus protests and cultural upheaval. Just weeks from earning her journalism degree she faced a life-changing decision: let her new husband be drafted to Vietnam - or join him in the Peace Corps and leave the U.S. behind.</p><p></p><p><em>Taking the Long Way Home: A Peace Corps Memoir of Brazil</em> you is the true story of a young American couple's transformative journey to Northeast Brazil - a region still reeling from a failed revolution. There amid intense heat poverty and beauty they built a school launched grassroots projects and found themselves immersed in a world both foreign and deeply human.</p><p></p><p></p>