A Wedding in Samar: An American Love Story

In 1962, John Halloran stepped from the Neptuno onto the island of Samar in the Philippines. Thus began his two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bobon, a remote place that became for him "the center of everything," home to people he would hold dear in his heart for the rest of his life. Published posthumously, A Wedding in Samar is rich with the everyday detail of how John and his roommate learned to live in a place where at night "the darkness was total," where there was "no electricity...