Mist on the Mountain: A story based on a real Journey($9.99Value)

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In 1984, reeling from an unwanted divorce and searching for clarity, Elizabeth Echavarria Reid joined a group of international journalists on a journey through Central America — Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala — at the height of the Contra war and amid the brutal military dictatorships of the era. What she found was larger than anything she had gone looking for. In Nicaragua she heard Carlos Mejía Godoy sing the songs of the revolution in another room had a conversation with Rosario Murillo, wife of elected President Daniel Ortega. She walked the Stations of the Cross through the revolutionary city of León. She sat beside a Sandinista soldier named Miguel on a coffee plantation while tracer bullets lit the sky, and listened to him speak about war with the quiet poetry of a man who had lived inside it his whole life. In Guatemala she marched alongside Maya campesinas carrying photographs of their disappeared children. And on a mountaintop in the Matagalpa highlands, a Tibetan Buddhist monk handed her a drum and told her: it was not about the rhythm. It was about putting aside the delusions of the mind and awakening clarity. She came home a different woman. The troubles that had driven her out of her own life had found their proper size. Mist on the Mountain is a memoir of one woman's journey into a world larger than her own pain — and what that world gave her in return.