Life Beyond Borders: A Journey Shaped by Places I Never Planned to Go

Melissa Mitchell never thought a civil war in Syria would reroute the life of a girl from Oregon. Then again, she didn't expect the Middle East to feel like home-or to spend decades with her husband living and working in places most people couldn't even point to on a map.

Life Beyond Borders is a brutally honest, laugh-out-loud, cry-when-you-least-expect-it memoir of what happens when one unlikely yes leads to three decades of chaos, compassion, and calling. Melissa's journey is all grit, he...