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  • Guanacaste Snapshots: An Album of Images and Memories of Rural Costa Rica 1965-1985 by Susan Gordon book cover
  • Guanacaste Snapshots: An Album of Images and Memories of Rural Costa Rica 1965-1985 by Susan Gordon book cover
  • Guanacaste Snapshots: An Album of Images and Memories of Rural Costa Rica 1965-1985 by Susan Gordon book cover
  • Guanacaste Snapshots: An Album of Images and Memories of Rural Costa Rica 1965-1985 by Susan Gordon book cover
  • Guanacaste Snapshots: An Album of Images and Memories of Rural Costa Rica 1965-1985 by Susan Gordon book cover
  • Guanacaste Snapshots: An Album of Images and Memories of Rural Costa Rica 1965-1985 by Susan Gordon book cover
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Guanacaste Snapshots: An Album of Images and Memories of Rural Costa Rica 1965-1985

by Susan Gordon

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A personal record of rural Guanacaste before its tourism boom

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A personal record of rural Guanacaste before its tourism boom

Susan Gordon gathers images and memories from two decades in a small Guanacaste community, spanning 1965 to 1985. The book frames its material as a set of interlinked reflections: recurring encounters with the same people reveal how personal lives and local realities shift over time. Its perspective is rooted in residence rather than tourism, documenting a part of Costa Rica before the region became widely associated with vacation travel and retirement. Intimate, sometimes humorous and sometimes painful recollections foreground the contradictions and complexities of community life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in rural Costa Rican history and everyday community life
  • Travel and place-writing readers seeking a long-term resident’s perspective
  • Those drawn to personal memory collections and image-centered local histories

Themes

Rural GuanacasteMemory and placeCommunity over timeTourism and changePersonal history

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Book overview

Like the mirror chips in a rotating ball, these stories provide reflections of the shifting realities of a small-town world in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, before it became the trendy vacation destination and retirement paradise it is today.You can delight in these intimate portraits that provide honest, personal, sometimes funny sometimes painful views of the human ironies and complexities in the experiences with the same people in the same community over a twenty-year period. Costa Rica was a not a vacation spot for the author; it was her home.

 

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