Bibliograph

Chameleon days, an American boyhood in Ethiopia, Tim Bascom

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Chameleon days, an American boyhood in Ethiopia, Tim Bascom

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Chameleon days

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Tim Bascom

Sub title

an American boyhood in Ethiopia

Summary

In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The unflinchingly observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary parents' struggles in a sometimes-hostile country. Sent reluctantly to boarding school in the capital, young Tim finds that beyond the gates enclosing that peculiar, isolated world, conflict roils Ethiopian society. When secret riot drills at school are followed with an attack by rampaging students near his parents' mission station, Tim witnesses the disintegration of his family's African idyll as Haile Selassie's empire begins to crumble. Like Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, Chameleon Days chronicles social upheaval through the keen yet naive eyes of a child. Bascom offers readers a fascinating glimpse of missionary life, much as Barbara Kingsolver did in The Poisonwood Bible

Target audience

adult

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