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An American Boyhood in Ethiopia
Mariner Books
June 2006
On Sale: June 14, 2006
256 pages
ISBN: 0618658696
EAN: 9780618658695
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In 1964, at the age of three, Tim Bascom is thrust into a
world of eucalyptus trees and stampeding baboons when his
family moves from the Midwest to Ethiopia. The unflinchingly
observant narrator of this memoir reveals his missionary
parents' struggles in a sometimes hostile country. Sent
reluctantly to boarding school in the capital, young Tim
finds that beyond the gates enclosing that peculiar,
isolated world, conflict roils Ethiopian society. When
secret riot drills at school are followed with an attack by
rampaging students near his parents' mission station, Tim
witnesses the disintegration of his family's African idyll
as Haile Selassie's empire begins to crumble.
Like
Alexandra Fuller's Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight,
Chameleon Days chronicles social upheaval through the keen
yet naive eyes of a child. Bascom offers readers a
fascinating glimpse of missionary life, much as Barbara
Kingsolver did in The Poisonwood Bible.
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