The Voluntourist: A Six-Country Tale of Love, Loss, Fatherhood, Fate and Singing

✍ Scribed by Budd, Ken

• Book ID: 107824130
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780061946462

✦ Synopsis

VOL- UN- TOUR- IST
n. 1. A guy who attempts to save the world in an attempt to save himself.
2. Someone who can only do it two weeks at a time.

When Ken Budd was thirty-nine, his father collapsed after eighteen holes of golf. Ken and his wife raced to the hospital--but it was too late. In the weeks that followed, as grieving friends revealed how his father had changed their lives, Ken started questioning his own life--and admitting, after years of denial, that he and his wife would never have children.

And then, still struggling with grief--his grief at losing his father, his grief at not being a father--Ken received an e-mail with the subject line: "Katrina Relief Volunteer Opportunities." He signed up. He went to New Orleans. And he kept volunteering: Costa Rica, to teach English; China, to work with special-needs children; Ecuador, to study climate change; the West Bank, to assist refugees; Kenya, to care for orphans. His...