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Title An Afternoon in Summer [electronic resource] : My Year on a South Sea Island, Doing Nothing, Gaining Everything, and Finally Falling in Love.
Author Giuffre, Kathy.
Publication Info. Chicago : Awa Press, 2010.
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Description 1 online resource (180 pages)
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Contents Cover; Dedication; Title Page; Epigraph; Preface; Arrival; Emily; Rain; Men; Company; Ghosts; Belonging; Aliens; Goodbye; Epilogue; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Copyright.
Summary In an attempt to escape from her stressful life as a single working mother of two young boys, Kathy Giuffre books a year-long trip for four in a tropical paradise. At the last minute, her boyfriend announces he isn't joining them, and Kathy finds herself in an unlivable house in Rarotonga, a tiny speck in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean. Her unlikely savior is Emily, an 82-year-old Maori woman with a large white house on the edge of the ocean, which the two women share with two callous missionaries, the ghosts of Emily's ancestors, and, br.
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Subject Giuffre, Katherine Anne -- Travel -- Cook Islands -- Rarotonga.
Giuffre, Katherine Anne -- Homes and haunts -- Cook Islands -- Rarotonga.
Self-realization.
Single mothers -- Psychology.
Rarotonga (Cook Islands) -- Social life and customs.
Rarotonga (Cook Islands) -- Description and travel.
Rarotonga (Cook Islands) -- Description and travel.
Rarotonga (Cook Islands) -- Travel guide.
Rarotonga (Cook Islands) -- Travel tips.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women
Genre Electronic books.
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Related To Print version: Giuffre, Kathy. An Afternoon in Summer : My Year on a South Sea Island, Doing Nothing, Gaining Everything, and Finally Falling in Love. Chicago : Awa Press, ©2010 9780958291682
ISBN 9781877551208 (electronic bk.)
1877551201 (electronic bk.)
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