Cloud Messenger: Love and Loss in the Indian Himalayas (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781460287699)

As a Canadian medical student, Karen Trollope-Kumar went to India to study social and preventive medicine and met a young pediatrician named Pradeep. His dream of working in the Himalayan foothills captured her imagination, and the man captured her heart. They married in a Hindu wedding ceremony and pledged to share a life of service and spiritual growth.
In this poignant, heartwarming, and gently humorous memoir, Karen recounts an eleven-year chapter of their unusual lives. She and Pradeep worked as medical doctors in the Himalayas, first in a rural hospital and later in remote mountain villages. When disaster struck - an assassination, an earthquake, a political crisis - their ideals, their safety, and their relationship are put at risk.
The Cloud Messenger is a story of adventure and idealism, culture and medicine, faith and love, and it raises enduring questions: How can we cross religious and cultural boundaries? What happens to our dreams in the face of danger and disillusionment? And when dreams diverge, when one spouse can no longer continue on a certain path, what path do we choose?

Author: Karen Trollope-Kumar
ISBN-10: 146028769X
ISBN-13: 9781460287699
Publisher: FriesenPress
Language: English
Published: 10/11/2016
Pages: 348
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/0001
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2017 pg. 141