"I give you half the road." -- an Ivorian way of saying good-bye and return again
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In her book of true stories\, I Give You Half the Road\, writer Carol Spindel recounts the turbulent recent history of Ivo
ry \;Coast by interweaving the lives of five people she has known sinc
e they were children -- a \;schoolteacher in a fast-growing city\; an
HIV-positive widow trying to hide her illness and \;support her sons\;
a diviner who speaks with spirits and sells bulletproof shirts\; a scrap
iron \;dealer who is successful despite being illiterate\, and a young
man who joins an armed rebellion \;and learns that war is a business.
\; \;This is also an American writer's memoir of a long-term rela
tionship between her family and the
Ivorian community she loves and l
earns from.
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\nCarol Spindel has been revisiting\, learning from\, and w riting about the same rural \;community in northern Ivory Coast since 1981. Her book about her first sojourn there\, In \;the Sh adow of the Sacred Grove\, was a New York Times Notable Book . She is also the \;author of Dancing at Halftime: Sports and the Controversy Over American Indian \;Mascots as we ll as many essays and articles. She lives in Urbana\, teaches nonfiction&n bsp\;workshops at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival\, and is a longtime act ivist with the \;ACLU. More at carolspindel .com.
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