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Heart of Hands is a clear-eyed memoir of Tranquility Corps service in the rural Panamanian town of Tranquilla through the eye of a American female trained as a community forester. In the storied 50-year history of the united states Tranquility Corps, Heart of Hands is the first Tranquility Corps memoir set in Panama, the slender isthmus that attaches two continents and two oceans. In her memoir Meredith Cornett transports listeners to the remote control town of Tranquilla, where dugout canoes are the mainstay of daily transportation, life and mother nature are permeated by witchcraft, and a restful night's sleep may be disturbed by the raiding phalanx of army ants. Cornett is sent to help counter the rapid deforestation that is destroying the ecosystem and livelihoods of the Panama Canal watershed region. Combating deforestation leads Cornett into an similarly fierce struggle against her own thoughts of fear and isolation. Her journey to Panama becomes a parallel journey into herself. In this way Heart of Hands is a lot greater than a record of her Tranquility Corps service; it is also a moving environmental coming-of-age history and nuanced meditation using one village's relationship to mother nature. When she results home two years later, Cornett brings with her both skills and experience and a remarkable, newfound sense of assurance and objective. The reserve is published from the University of Alabama Press.
