{"product_id":"chameleon-days-an-american-boyhood-in-ethiopia-9780618658695","title":"Chameleon Days: An American Boyhood in Ethiopia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLike 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim Bascom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/14\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.61h x 5.42w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780618658695\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/24\/2006 pg. 49\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2006 pg. 443\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/16\/2006 pg. 81\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2006 pg. 39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBascom, Tim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Tim Bascom spent much of his childhood in Ethiopia, where his father, a doctor, worked in mission hospitals. A graduate of the nonfiction writing program at the University of Iowa, he has been published in \u003cem\u003eThe Best American Travel Writing. \u003c\/em\u003eHe lives in Newton, Iowa, with his wife and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44185106841715,"sku":"9.78062E+12","price":22.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_d477837c-e4e0-4489-ad50-fe93dc1ad279.jpg?v=1767100479","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/chameleon-days-an-american-boyhood-in-ethiopia-9780618658695","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}