At Home on the Kazakh Steppe: A Peace Corps Memoir

Just when her life felt right: new home, new career, new grandchildren, Janet Givens leaves it all behind and, with her new husband, joins the Peace Corps.

Assigned to Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country finding its own way after generations under Soviet rule, she too must find a way to be in a world different from what she knew and expected.

Under the stress of a difficult new language, surprising cultural differences, and unexpected changes in her husband, Givens questions the loss of all she's given up.

Will it be worth it?