Uruguay – Peace Corps Worldwide

New books by Peace Corps writers | March–April 2023

May 01 2023

To purchase any of these books from Amazon.com — CLICK on the book cover, the bold book title, or the publishing format you would like — and Peace Corps Worldwide, an Amazon Associate, will receive a small remittance from your purchase that will help support the site and the annual Peace Corps Writers awards. We include a brief description for each of the books listed here in hopes of encouraging readers to order a book and/or to VOLUNTEER TO REVIEW IT. See a book you’d like to review for Peace Corps Worldwide? Send a note to Marian at marian@haleybeil.com, and she will send you a free copy along with a few instructions. P.S. In addition to the books listed below, I have on my shelf a number of other books whose authors would love for you to review. Go to Books Available for Review to see what is on that shelf. Please, please join in our . . .

JUST KEEP PEDALING by Connie Ness (Uruguay)

Mar 24 2023

Just Keep Pedaling is a fast-paced book about life in a slow-paced town. Connie Ness was the first and only PCV to live in the tiny pueblo of Baltasar Brum in Uruguay, the second-smallest country in South America. Ness writes honestly about her conflicted feelings toward the rewards and disappointments of living and working in a culture with different ideas on time and personal responsibility, and about the frustration and isolation of trying to communicate in a different language. In the end she discovered, as so many Peace Corps volunteers do, that doing service work in a developing country is not a one-way street. Her time in Uruguay was a soft clash of cultures, with a little bit of each rubbing off on the other. With over 80 photos of life and work in Uruguay, reading Connie Ness’s engaging account is like listening to a friend who just returned . . .