Description

When Jude Wilson decides to travel halfway across the world to visit the graves of his childhood Boy Scout heroes he unwittingly signs up for a lot more than he imagined Growing up in the placid little Pacific Northwest town of Clarksville could never adequately prepare him for what he encounters in the vibrant mercurial streets of Nairobi where context defines meaning and words alone are not always sufficient to communicate across a cultural gap He meets Qadir Mohamedthe affable manager at the youth hostel where he is stayingand a valuable friendship develops between two people from disparate backgrounds with seemingly little in common