This is one of the classic Peace Corps accounts. George Packer (Peace Corps Volunteer, Togo 1982-83), NY: Vintage/Random House, 1988 Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle Marnie Mueller (Peace Corps Volunteer, Ecuador 1963-65), CT: Curbstone Press, 1994 (RPCV WRITERS & READERS' Maria Thomas Fiction Award, 1994) The Village of Waiting (Buy this book) Green Fires: Assault on Eden, A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rain-Forest (Buy this book)Ī Returned Peace Corps Volunteer returns to her country of service. Tim McLaurin (Peace Corps Volunteer, Tunisia 1978-80), NY: W. Susan Lowerre (Peace Corps Volunteer, Senegal 1985-87) Sag Harbor, NY: Permanent Press, 1991 Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1993 The Keeper of the Moon: A Memoir (Buy this book) Univeristy of Hawaii Press, paper, 1993 (RPCV Writers & Readers' Paul Cowan Non-Fiction Award, 1992) Under the Neem Tree (Buy this book)Ī touching, wonderful story of one woman's life in West Africa. Kluge (Peace Corps Volunteer, Micronesia 1967-69), NY: Random House, 1991. The story of a Peace Corps Volunteer's long asssociation with his country of service. Geraldine Kennedy (Peace Corps Volunteer, Liberia 1962-64), E-mail, Santa Monica, CA: Clover Park Press, 1991 (Editor) The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia (Buy this book) Short stories based on her experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer.Įileen Drew (Peace Corps Volunteer, Zaire 1979-81), Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1989 (Milkweed Fiction Prize, 1989) From the Center of the Earth: Stories Out of the Peace Corps (Buy this book)Ī collection of writings by thirteen Peace Corps Volunteers. Blue Taxis: Stories about Africa (Buy this book) Available free from Peace Corps Regional Recruiting Offices. John Coyne (Peace Corps Volunteer, Ethiopia 1962-64) E-mail editor, Peace Corps, USGPO, DC, 1997, 1999.

Short essays by Peace Corps Writers on what it's like to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Kathleen Coskran (Peace Corps Volunteer, Ethiopia 1965-67), Minneapolis: New Rivers Press, 1987.

The High Price of Everything (Buy this book)Īn RPCV returns to her country of service. Editor's Choice: Books About the Peace Corps Experience

Under the Neem Tree by Susan Lowerre