Good afternoon and welcome to another edition of The Avid Reader. Today our guest is Keena Roberts. Her new memoir is Wild Life: Dispatches from a Childhood of Baboons and Button-Downs, published in November by Grand Central Publishing.

Keena is a graduate of Harvard and holds two Masters Degrees from Johns Hopkins in international development as well as global diseases epidemiology (EP I Deem E Ah Logy) and control.

She has worked in the area of global health for more than ten years, mostly in the field of HIV/Aids and we will find that this expertise evolved from her time in Africa.

Wild Life is the fascinating, humorous and poignant account, completely true, about Keena’s childhood, shuffling from Botswana to Philadelphia and back.

Basically from living in a wondrous, almost spiritual place back to a city we all know and a posh elite private school here in our suburbs.

The disparity between these two worlds gives the book a message. Or more than one message. But the most important is to be what you are, son’t apologize for it and forge ahead using what others might consider as challenges as your stepping off points to a valuable and fulfilling life.