Our Home in Myanmar, Jessica Mudditt
Our Home in Myanmar, Jessica Mudditt
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Our Home in Myanmar
Four years in Yangon

Author: Jessica Mudditt

Narrator: Jessica Mudditt

Unabridged: 7 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Hembury Press

Published: 06/15/2021


Synopsis

After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica Mudditt and her Bangladeshi husband Sherpa arrive in Yangon in 2012 – just as the military junta is beginning to relax its ironclad grip on power. It is a high-risk atmosphere; a life riddled with chaos and confusion as much as it is with wonder and excitement.Jessica joins a small team of old-hand expat editors at The Myanmar Times, whose Burmese editor is still languishing in prison. Whether she is covering a speech by Aung San Suu Kyi, getting dangerously close to cobras, directing cover shoots with Burmese models, or scaling Bagan’s thousand-year-old temples, Jessica is entranced and challenged by a country undergoing rapid change.But as the historic elections of 2015 draw near, it becomes evident that the road to democracy is full of twists, turns and false starts. The couple is blindsided when a rise in militant Buddhism takes a personal turn and challenges their belief that they have found a home in Myanmar.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tripfiction on October 15, 2021

A fascinating insight into MYANMAR Jessica, an Australian journalist, and her husband, a Bangladeshi called Sherpa – also a journalist – spent four years in Myanmar from 2012 to 2016. It was a great and ‘historic’ time to be there as the country began to open up to Western ideas before it plunged its......more

Goodreads review by glenn on April 13, 2023

having lived and being involved in volunteer work for 3 years that Jessica writes about, I've been flooded with memories of a few of the same people, many places and the experiences of life in Yangon during its days of more openness and freedom.......more

Goodreads review by JoAnn on December 03, 2021

Thank you to Goodreads giveaways for the opportunity to read this book. I didn’t know much at all about Myanmar (Burma), before reading this book. The book was written by a journalist and was very interesting and informative, without being dry. The author wove her personal experiences and observatio......more

Goodreads review by Sam on January 05, 2022

I purchased this at Jessica’s book launch at AIIA. I’ve always been fascinated by Myanmar, but knew little about it. This book really opened my eyes to the highs and lows of this unique country. Jessica is a fantastic writer and the book has excellent flow, urging you to keep turning the page.......more

Goodreads review by မယ်ကျွိ on October 21, 2022

English version below… အရင်တပတ်ထဲက ရက်တရက်မှာ ကံကော်ဝတ်ရည်FM ဆိုပြီး ဖွဲ့ထားတဲ့ ဂရုထဲကို ကိုဟေမာန်က အီးဘုတ် လင့်တခု ချလာပေးတယ်။ ကိုယ်က မနေ့မနက်က ဖွင့်ကြည့်မိတယ်။ စာအုပ်နာမည်က ရန်ကုန်မြို့မှာ လေးနှစ်တာတဲ့။ ဘာသာပြန်စာအုပ်။ မူရင်း စာအုပ်နာမည်က Our home in Myanmar - Four years in Yangon။​ စာအုပ်ရေးသူက Je......more