The author wrote her parents every week while in training, in Hamadon, Iran, and then while in service as a Peace Corps Volunteer, teaching English as a Foreign Language, in Babol, Iran. The book is a compilation both the letters of the author and her parents. _ e letters begin when the author departs her home state, Oregon, for Philadelphia, for her thirst introduction into the cross-cultural experience provided by Peace Corps in 1972. The letters...