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Dispatches from the Cowgirl: Through the Looking Glass with a Navy Diplomat's Wife

by Julie Tully

A cowgirl’s life abroad

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A cowgirl’s life abroad

Julie Tully’s memoir begins with a major relocation: leaving her career and familiar life to accompany her U.S. Navy officer husband to Sub-Saharan Africa. What was expected to be a two-year family assignment stretches into eight years across Cameroon, Nigeria, and Djibouti. The account brings together questions of identity and reinvention with the experience of living abroad as a military spouse; Tully’s role also expands into that of an unofficial diplomat. Its geographical and personal scope makes the book a travel memoir shaped by family life and military service.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

Travel memoir readers interested in life in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Djibouti.
Readers curious about the experiences of military spouses living overseas.
Readers interested in personal reinvention and cross-cultural life.

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Travel and relocationMilitary family lifeIdentity and reinventionDiplomacy and cross-cultural experience

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Book overview

Would you move to Africa?

For Julie Tully, a cowgirl who married a United States naval officer, the answer was a no-brainer: Yes!

Leaving her career and everything she knew behind to follow her husband, Julie was rapidly approaching forty and wondering, "What is my place in the world?" Enter Africa, the continent she had dreamed of since childhood, a chance to reinvigorate her life. A supposed two-year assignment for her family in Sub-Saharan Africa soon turns into an eight-year adventure in Cameroon, Nigeria, and Djibouti and sees Julie become an unofficial diplomat as wife to a military attach

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