Chasing Chaos Book Report

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“Chasing Chaos: My Decade in and out of Humanitarian Aid” is a book by Jessica Alexander about her arrival in Rwanda in the aftermath of the genocide as an idealist intern, egger to be a part of the international humanitarian aid community. Alexander starts out more hopeful than that, only to find herself getting sucked into the same cynical trap as so many others in the humanitarian field. Her journey is documented in "Chasing Chaos" is an enlightening but inconsistent memoir. The world that she entered was dramatically different than anything she could have imagined.
In this honest and irreverent memoir, she introduces readers to the reality of the life of an aid worker. Alexander writes in an easy, conversational manner that makes this
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