Between Inca Walls
A Peace Corps Memoir
by Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
She Writes Press
Biographies & Memoirs
Pub Date 11 Aug 2020
I am reviewing a copy of Between Inca Walls through She Writes Press and Netgalley:
Evelyn is naive about life and love at twenty one. She was raised in a small Montana town, but at sixteen she and her devoutly Catholic family move to California. In California she is drawn to the Latino culture after working amongst the migrant workers. During the summer of her junior year in college, Evelyn travels to a small Mexican town to help set up a school and a library, an experience that whets her appetite for a life full of both purpose and adventure.
Evelyn joins the Peace Corps after graduation. Where she is sent to sent to perform community development work in a small mountain town in the Andes of Perú. It is there she and her roommate Marie, search for meaningful projects and adjust to living with few amenities. In eighteen months the two young women work in a hospital, start 4-H clubs, attend campesino meetings, and teach PE in a school with dirt floors. Evelyn is chosen queen of the local boys Highschool and despite being resolved to resist temptations, she falls in love with a University Student. As Evelyn comes of age she must choose between following the religious rules of her youth and giving in to her sexual desires.
I give Between Inca Walls Four out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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