Notes from the Bottom of the World: A Life in Chile

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KEY SELLING POINTS:

Chile is hip right now, recently named Lonely Planets 2017 number 1 place to visit.

Since 1960, the number of expats has tripled: in 1960 there were 73 million expats worldwide, today there are 230 million.

According to the National Travel and Tourism Office, 2016 (the most recent year for which there is data) saw an increase of more than 8 percent in the number of American citizens jetting off to international destinations, with a total of 66,960,943 US citizens traveling outside the country.

There are few memoirs written by Americans living in Latin America.

AUDIENCE:

Bicultural families

Naturalists, environmentalists, and gardeners

Peace Corps alumni

Expatriates

Reviews

2019 Sarton Women's Book Awards Finalist in Memoir

A lyrical meditation on the meaning of place and home . . . A poignant collection to cherish.
Marjorie Agosn, author of I Lived on Butterfly Hill

Notes from the Bottom of the World truly demonstrates that Suzanne Adam is an observer and writer par excellence of and about nature, travel, and living a life in a country not of her birth.
Marian Haley Beil, Publisher, PeaceCorpsWorldwide.org

In this tender, irresistible collection of personal essays, Suzanne Adam writes with quiet passion, sensitivity, and often achingly beautiful insight about her experiences, particularly the exquisite tension of sharing ones heart between two cultures.
Allyson Latta, literary editor and University of Toronto creative writing instructor

As we age, we naturally try to connect the loose ends of our lives. Let Suzanne Adams be your guide as she revisits her roots in California, Colombia, and Chile.
John L. Rector, author of The History of Chile

I laughed, I cried, and I identified with the nurturing care Adam had dispersed. This book is a testament to the life surging within the body of a seventieth woman.
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Author Bio

A California native, Suzanne Adam served in the Peace Corps in Colombia before moving to Santiago, Chile in 1972 to marry her boyfriend, Santiago. She explores how this experience shaped her life in her 2015 memoir Marrying Santiago. Adam admits to being a tree-hugger, avid reader, nature writer, gardener, CNN news junkie, bird watcher, lover of storms and laughter, and doting granny. Before turning to writing, she worked as a teacher of learning-disabled children. Her essays have been published in The Christian Science Monitor, California Magazine, the Marin Independent Journal, Nature Writing, and Persimmon Tree. She blogs at www.tarweedspirit.blogspot.com.