Shade of the Paraiso by Mark Salvatore

In Shade of the Paraiso, Mark Salvatore will transport you through his two years of volunteer Peace Corps* experience (1989-91) in Paraguay, South America, with its challenges, its failures, its joy, and his wedding in a leper colony ... his first day beginning with a coup.

Imagine a remote community, where you read by candle light, draw your water from a well, cook your meals on an open fire and attend to your needs in a rickety outhouse. To reach the nearest bus stop and telephone requires a long hike along a road rutted by ox carts that lasts for hours.

An experience he'll never forget ... and neither will you.

*Shade of the Paraiso recounts Salvatore’s experience and he does not represent Peace Corps, Peace Corps Paraguay, or any other volunteer’s experience.