Six Years in a Zambian Village
by Jill Kandel
In 1981, Jill Kandel traveled to the remote Zambian village of Kalabo. She was a bride of six weeks, married to a blue-eyed boy from the Netherlands. Amidst international crises and famine, she gave birth to two children, bridged a cultural divide with her Dutch husband, and was devastated by a car accident that took the life of a twelve-year-old Zambian child. She stayed six years. After returning home, Kandel struggled to find her voice and herself. This is the story of how she found her way home.
BIOGRAPHY
Jill Kandel grew up in North
Dakota, riding her Appaloosa bareback across the prairie. She has
lived and
worked in Zambia, Indonesia, England, and in the Netherlands. She
now lives
with her husband and children in Minnesota where she teaches
creative writing
and essay. Kandel also teaches journal writing classes to female
inmates at a
local county jail.
AWARDS
Kandel's book, So Many Africas: Six Years
in a Zambian
Village won the 2014 Autumn House Prize for Creative
Nonfiction. She was
the runner-up of the 23rd Annual Missouri
Review Jeffry E. Smith Editors' Prize and her work has
been anthologized in
Best Spiritual Writing 2012 (Penguin Books) and in Becoming:
What
Makes a Woman (University
of
Nebraska, 2012). Her
essays have been
published in The Missouri
Review,
Gettysburg Review, Brevity,
River Teeth, Pinch, and Image.
FIND OUT MORE
Author site: http://jillkandel.com/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5768678.Jill_Kandel
Publisher: Autumn House Press
PURCHASE
Amazon or directly from the author
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