No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir David LaRochelle with the poet's painful relationships

with the poet's painful relationships with her family of Christian missionaries

confronts a modern world that creates so much social pressure as to regularly exceed the capacities of the evolving mind

a family is pulled into a web of mysteries that the younger daughter sets out to solve

high above the city

but to other familiar figures in the 1984 universe

No Ordinary Assignment: A Memoir David LaRochelle with the poet's painful relationshipsA haunting memoir of disarming honesty. . . a remarkable testament to the anguish and the beauty of foreign correspondence. Roger Cohen, New York Times Paris bureau chief and author of An Affirming Flame From award winning journalist Jane Ferguson, an unflinching memoir of ambition and war from The Troubles to the fall of Kabul. Jane Ferguson has covered nearly every war front and humanitarian crisis of our time. She reported from Yemen as protests