Biographies & History

In the days before Roe v. Wade, a young journalist, the first woman on the metro desk of a major newspaper, falls in love with the paper's star reporter, an older married man. When she becomes pregnant, he makes empty promises. She's forced to give up the baby for adoption. Will Dusky ever find the little girl she longed to raise, and if she does, what will be the fallout from their years apart?

Ever thought of chucking everything for a foreign culture? David and his Filipino wife, Ivy, did just that, moving to a remote Philippine province in Mindanao. The adventure was surprising, challenging, satisfying, sometimes frightening, often hilarious, and always instructive. This is the story of how it all turned out.