About this Event
University Book Store is excited to present Mary Anne Mercer for the release of Beyond the Next Village. This event is free to attend, however, registration is required through the link provided. We request that all attendees wear masks and maintain social distancing during the reading and signing. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected]. Thank you and we look forward to having you join us!
About Beyond the Next Village
Beyond the Next Village is Mary Anne Mercer’s memoir of discovery, growth, and awakening in 1978 Nepal, which was then a mysterious country to most of the world.
After arriving in Nepal, Mercer, an American nurse, spent a year traveling on foot often in flip-flops with a Nepali health team, providing immunizations and clinical care in each village they visited. Communicating in a newly acquired language, she was often called upon to provide the only modern medicine available to the people she and her team were serving. Over time, she learned to recognize and respect the prominence of their cultural beliefs about health and illness. Encounters with life-threatening conditions such as severe malnutrition and ectopic pregnancy gave her an enlightening view of both the limitations and power of modern health care; immersed in villagers’ lives and those of her own team, she realized she was living in not just another country, but another time. This unique story of the joys and perils of one woman’s journey in the shadow of the Himalayas, Beyond the Next Village opens a window into a world where the spirits were as real as the trees, the birds, or the rain and healing could be as much magic as medicine.
The moderator for this event will be Rachel Chapman from the Anthropology Department at the University of Washington.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University Book Store, 4326 University Way Northeast, Seattle, United States
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