The Shortest Way Home
By Elaine Reidy
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Lina O’Reilly feels the need to escape from the stifling environment of her strict Catholic upbringing. Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s call to service, she volunteers for the Peace Corps, and is sent to a small Latin American country with a history of violence and class warfare. The other volunteers in her group run the gamut from religious fanaticism to promiscuity, from 1960s idealism to calculating self-interest. Lina is soon caught up in a spiral of politics, corruption, sensuality and exotic religion. Then, finding herself at the center of a bloody uprising she does not understand, Lina struggles to survive in a world that is fast disintegrating.
Elaine Reidy
Elaine Reidy served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic from 1963 to 1965. She was evacuated from the Dominican capital by U. S. Marines in the wake of a violent revolution and civil war. After returning to the United States, she embarked on a long and successful career as a book and paper conservator. She was chief of the celebrated book conservation studio of Carolyn Horton before moving to the New York Public Library as Book Conservator. Ms. Reidy served for 17 years as Head of the Conservation Laboratory at the New York Academy of Medicine. She also taught book conservation at the Graduate School of Information Sciences at Queens College of the City University of New York, ending her career as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Antorchas Foundation in Buenos Aires, lecturing in Spanish on book and paper conservation. Since settling in New York City, Ms. Reidy has written two novels in addition to The Shortest Way Home.
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