Living Thirteen Years in Latin America

Living Thirteen Years in Latin America is a synopsis of three books: Living in El Salvador,  Living in Nicaragua, and Living in Brazil. As a twenty-year-old, I joined the Peace Corps and  was sent to El Salvador. Before going to El Salvador, I spent three months on a mountain top in a Puerto Rican rain forest learning Spanish-a language for which I had had no previous exposure. Living in El Salvador documents my struggles with learning Spanish and then adjusting to the  cultural d