LIVING INTERESTING LIVES: A MEMOIR

By Marina Ottaway Ph.D. and David Ottaway Ph.D.

This lively family memoir covers over 20 years of the life of a Washington Post foreign correspondent and his family, working and trying to make a home and bring up small children in various hot news spots in Africa and the Middle East. It reflects on the strange normalcy of daily life in the midst of coups d'etat and revolutions, and on the challenges encountered by a foreign correspondent before the days of the internet and instant communications, struggling to cover and explain an entire continent while working in isolation from the foreign desk in Washington. Written in four different voices, this collective family memoir brings to light how various family members processed the same events in very different ways, with children remembering normal and happy childhoods--although their parents remember extremely challenging living conditions.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D8RMJ2YL
• ISBN13: 9798329657142
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.1" x 6.0"