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“Moves beyond a compelling personal story to shed radiant light on history itself... an essential chronicle of midcentury American idealism.” —Patricia Hampl, author of The Art of the Wasted DayIn 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.Like 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.“Such precision in voice earned Bascom the Bread Loaf Writer's Con

Who reads Chameleon Days : An American Boyhood in Ethiopia?

Author

Tim Bascom; Ted Hoagland

Publisher

Mariner Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780618658695

Category

travel

Subjects

Memoir, Science, Fiction

Rating

3.42 / 5 (96 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14