Review of Long Ago And Far Away by Karel R. Amaranth, MPH, MA

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Having just returned from east Africa myself I was drawn to this book’s setting in Ethiopia. I was particularly interested in the historical backdrop of the deterioration Haile Selassie’s rule and the impact on the people of Ethiopia as they were plunged deeper and deeper into poverty and political instability. The fact that John Coyne was in Ethiopia as a Peace Corps Volunteer I knew would give the book authenticity of the place and historical context. The book certainly delivers as a record of that time in the chapters written from the voice of a third person narrator.

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Jackie Schlenger Reviews Long Ago And Far Away

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Coyne displays in his previous twenty plus books culminate in this novel in a very satisfying way. He very skillfully takes to the land of Ethiopia during the reign of Hale Selassie, just prior to the demise of the empire at the hands of Mengistu and the dergue. He reveals life from the viewpoint of young people on their own, many for the first time, ten thousand miles from home in a magical African land. He reveals the intensity of relationships formed by this experience. Relationships that endure across the decades.

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