{"product_id":"a-place-set-for-me-peter-oneil-9798996793112","title":"A Place Set for Me","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There is no one here whom I will be dying to see again.\" Peter O'Neil wrote that home the week he left Cameroon. This is the story of how wrong he was.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1988 he landed in Bangem, a mountain village in the anglophone region of Cameroon, an engineer with zero teaching experience, assigned to a classroom with no glass in the windows. He figured he'd stay two years, do some good, and head home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen three boys showed up at his door with a broom. A widow named Mami Elizabeth set a place for him at her fire and called him her child. And a village that barely knew him decided he didn't need to be alone anymore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Place Set for Me follows those two years, and the thirty-five that came after. Fufu and chevron beads. The cord in the discipline master's drawer. Two dollars between a child and malaria. The night the women pulled him into the dance. A place with little of what the world calls wealth, and far more of the other kind than he had ever imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is also the story of a question his father once asked, and of the answer that arrived only years later: not what he was running from, but what he was running toward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter O'Neil\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798996793112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seabrook Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.07lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d","brand":"Peter O'Neil","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48871460536575,"sku":"9798996793112","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-place-set-for-me-peter-oneil-9798996793112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}