· At the heart of her tale are the profound, complex, often challenging relationships she forms with those she meets along the way. Whether recounting a perilous boat trip to Timbuktu, a night of impassioned political debate in Ghana, or a fumbled romance in Burkina Faso, Shaffer portrays the collision of African and North American cultures with self-deprecating humor and clear-eyed . Somebodys Heart Is Burning A Woman Wanderer In Africa|Tanya Shaffer3, A topographical dictionary of England Comprising the several counties cities boroughs corporate market towns the islands of Guernsey Jersey and statistical descriptions Volume 2|Samuel Lewis, Establishing and Operating a Book Store U S Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce Industrial|Paul Sorel, /10(). · Somebody's Heart Is Burning is the memoir of a white American woman who spent a year in Africa, fleeing confusion over a relationship. ("It's my life, and if I want to run from it, I can," she asserts from the first page.) She begins as a work-camp volunteer in Ghana, and then visits Mali and East Africa as a tourist/5.
"It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can," quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent. Eager to transcend the limitations of tourism, Shaffer works as a volunteer, building schools. SOMEBODY'S HEART IS BURNING. A Tale of a Woman Wanderer in Africa. by Tanya Shaffer. BUY NOW FROM. AMAZON BARNES NOBLE GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: Email Address Subscribe. Tweet. KIRKUS REVIEW. Performance artist Shaffer vividly records meaningful encounters with the locals during her yearlong jaunt across Africa—but remains obtuse. Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer In Africa Tanya Shaffer, Impressions of Italy|Mary Jane Christie Serrano Paul Bourget, The Book of the Distress of Arjuna|Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith, Magical Dream Journeys 2 The Forest Wizard|Melissa Virtue.
Tanya Shaffer is an award-winning playwright and author of the acclaimed travel memoir Somebody’s Heart is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa. Her plays Baby Taj, Let My Enemy Live Long!, Brigadista, and Miss America’s Daughters have been produced by major regional theatres such as Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, San Diego. I’d go almost an entire day without thinking of him, and then I’d turn a corner and there he’d be, his sudden, cheeky grin reflected in the face of a policeman or trinket hawker, his loose-limbed walk adorning a museum guard. His letters arrived at the Moroccan work camp every few days. Each one was quintessentially Michael: quirky. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity. Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa by Tanya Shaffer.
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