Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival Audiobook (Free)

From Jeffrey Gettleman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Moments journalist, comes a passionate, revealing story about finding love and locating a calling, collection against one of the most turbulent areas in the world.

A practiced war correspondent, Jeffrey Gettleman has covered every major conflict over the past twenty years, from Afghanistan to Iraq to the Congo. For days gone by decade, he provides served as the East Africa bureau key for the brand new York Times, satisfying his teenage dream of surviving in about Love, Africa: A Memoir of Love, War, and Success Africa. Like, Africa may be the story of how he got there-and of his challenging, winding path toward learning to be a great reporter and a better man.

At nineteen, Gettleman fell in love, double. On the community provider trip in university, he went to Africa-a terrifying, thrilling, dreamlike continent in the throes of switch that imprinted itself on his creativity and heart. 1 day, he vowed, he would return there to remain. But around once he also fell in love with Courtenay, a fellow Cornell student-the brightest, fiercest, kindest woman he’d ever fulfilled.

Courtenay became a lawyer in America, and all Gettleman wanted was to become with her. But he also hungered to be in Africa. For the next decade he would waver between these two abiding passions. Finally, after significant amounts of growing up, he discovered in all honesty with himself in what he wanted-a realization that eventually fulfilled both of his deepest desires.

A beautifully rendered coming-of-age story in the tradition of Barbarian Days, Like, Africa is an account of passion, professional rivalries, tortuous long-distance relationships, marital strife, forgiveness, parenthood, and happiness that explores the power of finding yourself in probably the most unforeseen of places.