Reading: Caroline Kurtz: A Road Called Down on Both Sides
Annie Bloom's Books 7834 SW Capitol Hwy, PortlandAnnie Bloom's welcomes Portland author Caroline Kurtz to read from her memoir, A Road Called Down on Both Sides: Growing Up in Ethiopia and America. Caroline Kurtz grew up in the remote mountains of Maji, Ethiopia in the 1950s. Inside her mud adobe home with her missionary parents and three sisters, she enjoyed American family life. Outside, her world was shaped by drums and the joy cry; Jeep and mule treks into the countryside; ostriches on the air strip; and the crackle of several Ethiopian languages she barely understood but longed to learn. Caroline felt she'd been exiled to a foreign country when she went to Illinois for college. She returned to Ethiopia to teach, only to discover how complex working in another culture and language…