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One of them grew up in a Park Avenue apartment, haunted by a painful childhood, deserted by her father, her mentally ill mother committed to a hospital. She became a physcotherapist. The other grew up in a dirt-floor hut shared by pigs, in the remote highlands of Papua New Guinea. She married a polygamist whose family gave “”bride price”” to her family and whose fifth wife attacked her with a knife. She became a feminist activist. Somehow, they met. With the heart of a mother and the attuned intellect of an experienced United States psychotherapist, Audrey McCollum explores the life of Pirip Kuru. McCollum discovers that she needs to suspend her Western feminist perspective in order to see Pirip clearly. The more she discovers about Pirip the more she discovers about herself. Her poignant memories lend an incredible strength to a story of cross-cultural understanding and gender equality.
First edition 1999, cardcover, 216 pages, colour plates, maps
ISBN-0-9666896-0-7
