Neely Tucker

rabck from squeakychu; A white journalist based in Zimbabwe doing stories around africa and his black wife become aware of the overwhelming volume of abandoned children, most because their parents are suffering from AIDS, and the children die usually within 3 years. Despite this, they take Chipo home for the weekend, which ends in a hospitalization and then years of paperwork trying to adopt her, which is heavily frowned on by the government. Also includes passages about Neely's growing up years in Mississippi, but interestingly doesn't include much about the wife Vita.… (mere)