Stories of Women in Cross-Cultural Marriages

An Indian-born foreign service officer killed in the U.S. embassy bombing in Nairobi, Kenya. An Austrian-born doctor who volunteered her medical skills in Japan, South Vietnam, and Iran. A French-speaking woman from a remote village in Gabon. These are just three of the women whose stories are told in this book—women born in other countries who, through their marriages to American diplomats, became representatives of the United States.

While they experience immigrant life in a unique way, they share the challenges faced by other women in cross-cultural marriages away from their own countries.