![]() ![]() ![]() She recalls the particular conditions of the toilets and washing facilities in the camp within which she works, alongside offering portraits of her fellow aid workers. The book opens with Alexander working in Darfur in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. The primary concern of Alexander’s structuring of her book is to ensure that she is able to draw attention to this arc while at the same giving space and attention to the particular experiences she recalls. Although autobiographical, this arc can be seen to be essentially novelistic as it portrays an individual in the process of a transition from state of relative innocence and naivety to a state of worldliness and, in some cases, cynicism. The arc of the book involves Alexander’s own personal growth and intellectual development as she conducts work for international aid agencies over a period of ten years. ![]()
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