Title: Love in the Driest Season: A Family Memoir
Author(s): Neely Tucker
Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Broadway
Publication date: April 5th 2005 (first published December 9th 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1400081602
ISBN-13: 9781400081608

Book Description
In 1997 foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe. After witnessing the devastating consequences of AIDS and economic disaster on the country’s children, the couple started volunteering at an orphanage where a critically ill infant, abandoned in a field on the day she was born, was trusted to their care. Within weeks, Chipo, the baby girl whose name means “gift,” would come to mean everything to them. Their decision to adopt her, however, would challenge an unspoken social norm: that foreigners should never adopt Zimbabwean children. Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo’s true story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love—and dogged determination—can sometimes achieve.