Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story by Karen Connelly

I have recently reviewed Burmese Lessons: A True Love Story by Karen Connelly in the New York Times.

Karen Connelly’s passionate and poetic memoir begins with her arrival in Burma in 1996 at the age of 27. Brash, naïve and bubbling with confidence, she is enchanted by the country, but also determined to “catch at least a glimpse of the truth — something beyond the beautiful images that are so readily available to the foreign eye.” …

From Border Crossings, a book review published on June 11, 2010.

Read full review online.