Archive - February 8, 2011

Last month, in our January listings of new books by RPCVs, we listed the 2nd edition of  Dillon Banerjee (Cameroon 1994-96) book: The Insider’s Guide to the Peace Corps: What to Know Before You Go, published by Ten Speed Press. Then yesterday in the mail I got a copy of  The Complete Guide to Joining the Peace Corps: What you need to know explained simply. (Real simply!) It was complied by someone named Sharlee DiMenichi, who wasn’t a PCV, though she taught in China, and it has a short foreword by Shannon Heintz (Kenya 2005-07). On the back of the book, Jennifer Zweigbau (Mauritania 1989-90) writes, “Had this book been around in 1988 when I first joined the Peace Corps, it would have alleviated a lot of the guess-work.” (I don’t think so, Jen.) This ‘complete guide book’ was mailed to me with a scrap of paper that said it was published by . . .