First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria: How a Peace Corps Poster Boy Won My Heart and a Third World Adventure Changed MyLife-Fast Shipping

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In this hilarious memoir, a pampered city girl falls head over littleblack heels in love with a Peace Corps poster boy and follows him—literally to theends of the earth.

Eve Brown always thought she would join the Peace Corps someday,although she secretly worried about life without sushi, frothy coffee drinks andair conditioning. But with college diploma in hand, it was time to put up or shutup. So with some ambivalence she arrived at the Peace Corps office, sporting her bestsafari chic attire, to casually look into the steps one might take tobecome a global humanitarian, a la Angelina Jolie. But when Eve meets John, herdashing young Peace Corps recruiter, all her ambivalence flies out the window. Sheabsolutely must join the Peace Corps and win John’s heart in the process. After spending a year in the jungle in Ecuador, she runs back to the states, vowing to stay within easy reach of a decaf cappuccino for the rest of her days.

Just as she’s getting reacquainted with the joys of toiletpaper, John gets a job with CARE and Eve must decide if she’s up for life in anotherthird world you can say, “pass the malaria prophylaxis,” the coupleheads off to Uganda, and the fun really begins
— if you call having rats in yourtoilet fun. Fortunately, in Eve’s case you certainly can, because to her, every experienceis an adventure to embrace and the pages come alive with all of the poignant and uproarious details.

From intestinalparasites to getting caught in a civil war, culture clashes to unexpected friendships,First Comes Love, then Comes Malaria is an honest and laugh-out-loud look at Eve’s misadventures as an aspiring do-gooder and her search for love and purpose, which she finds in the last place she expected.