Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir

This is a very good and eye-opening book. It is about an American couple's struggle to adopt a girl from Zimbabwe. It is a heart felt book. This book also show a part of history in the Zimbabwean society. I recommend that everyone reads this book.

The life and love of a child is worth every struggle.

A very touching story

What an amazing book! This true tale tells of an American mixed-race couple who attempt to adopt a baby girl in southern Africa. Tucker uses plain and simple language to describe the frustrations and roadblocks the couple faces. Living in Africa myself, I can identify with the story. It is touching and very well written.

Touching

One of the most beautiful written family memoir I've read in a while - part also a memoir about the war journalist work traveling from war zone to Refugee camps, to morgues and the struggle to adopt a child that needs a home in order to live. This books was another one I've read within a few hours, honest written from his married life, to the fears of losing the child to A.I.D.S. Crisis to...more

One of the most beautiful written family memoir I've read in a while - part also a memoir about the war journalist work traveling from war zone to Refugee camps, to morgues and the struggle to adopt a child that needs a home in order to live. This books was another one I've read within a few hours, honest written from his married life, to the fears of losing the child to A.I.D.S. Crisis to getting their child out fo africa. My favorite line in the book is when he is at a morgue and a priest at the moruge talks about grief saying there is all this love in his heart for his daughter( the priest) and it has nowhere to go but to stay in his heart. - that line moved me, it says everything about grief, everything about love....and the loss of someone we care about. Beautiful written book and as far I know HBO is devolping the book into a TV Film. A must read for those who seek to adopt from forin country or learn more on what life in zimbabwe is like.   hide

Inspiring book about loving a child and how far one can reach for that true love...

“By noon, the ants had found the girl-child.” From the first sentence, this book had us hooked. Not only is it a great story, but very well written. My wife and I are in a similar situation, living in Africa and trying to adopt a child we’ve had for years, and the book seems pretty realistic to us. Of note, the author is neither cynical nor romantic about his family’s...more

“By noon, the ants had found the girl-child.” From the first sentence, this book had us hooked. Not only is it a great story, but very well written. My wife and I are in a similar situation, living in Africa and trying to adopt a child we’ve had for years, and the book seems pretty realistic to us. Of note, the author is neither cynical nor romantic about his family’s experiences, and gives us a very good picture of the struggles of his heart as well as the external struggle for adoption. Thanks to our daughter Lisa for sending us this book!   hide

About a foreign correspondent in Zimbabwe and his trials in adopting a baby from a Zimbzbwe orphanage. Very interesting and good details on country.