
Chameleon Days
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In 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 Conference Bakeless Prize, and his smartly naïve observations grow more sophisticated as the country succumbs to political unrest in the 1970s and missionary life becomes uncertain. Nostalgic but not overwrought, Bascom's memoir is accented with casual family snapshots like ribbons on the gift of a gently captured place in time." - Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Bascom, son of missionaries, illuminates the Ethiopia of his childhood in this Bakeless Prize-winning memoir... A stirring tribute to a turbulent, beautifully evoked era." - Kirkus Reviews
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- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Part One
- Baboons on a Cliff
- The Chameleon Looked Both Ways
- A Vocabulary for My Senses
- The Letters She Wrote
- The Emperor's Smile
- Birth Order
- Bushwhacking
- In My Father's House
- My Brother's Keeper
- Blessed Assurance
- Come or Go?
- Castaways
- Part Two
- Wave Goodbye
- Cinders
- Code of Conduct
- Waiting Games
- Candy Day
- Moon Landing
- My World, Their World
- Sent Back
- And I'll Fly Away
- What Kind of Children?
- My Pilgrim Progress
- The Volcanic Lake
- Riot Drill
- Besieged
- Hidden Agendas
- Pigeon Fever
- Warning Signs
- Lost Armor
- Epilogue
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgments
- Bread Loaf and the Bakeless Prices
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH
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