Breakfast Wine by Alex Poppe

Breakfast Wine by Alex Poppe

'Breakfast Wine' by Alex Poppe

Alex Poppe was adrift. Soon tiring of corporate life, the Marquette business-economics graduate tried acting in New York with no success. She was a person in search not only of purpose but of herself. Her ticket to destiny was going abroad to teach English as a second language.

In 2011 she found herself in northern Iraq, Kurdistan, at a school for children of the autonomous region’s elite. Breakfast Wine is an engaging memoir of her thorny path in and around the classroom. Her colleagues included a convicted rapist, and many Kurdish men treated her as an object for gaping and pawing. As for her students, their ear buds and iPhones were only the smallest obstacles. In their minds, family connections insured their future status