The Shade Under the Mango Tree: Between Two Worlds, Book 5

by Evy Journey, Connie Shabshab (Narrator), Josh Domingo (Narrator)

After heartbreaking losses, Luna craves adventure. An escape into a different world away from her sheltered childhood. Lucien, a young architect and world traveler, finds a stranger’s journal at a café. Despite his pangs of guilt, he’s fascinated and goes on reading. When they meet, Luna is inspired by Lucien’s stories and adventurous spirit to go on a Peace Corps assignment to a rice-growing village in Cambodia. What she finds there defies everything she could ever have imagined. A world steeped in ancient culture and haunted by the lasting ravages of a deadly history.

Can she leave this world unscathed?

An epistolary tale of courage, resilience, and the bonds that bring diverse people together.

Audible Audio

Published April 5, 2022

About the author

Evy writes short stories, blogs, and cross-genre novels. She’s also a wannabe artist, a flâneuse, and a former social science researcher. Also listed as E.Journey elsewhere on this site, you'll find her other books at https://www.goodreads.com/author/show...

Having studied psychology (M.A., University of Hawaii; Ph.D. University of Illinois), her fiction spins tales about nuanced characters dealing with contemporary life issues and problems. She believes in love and its many faces.

Her one ungranted wish: To live in Paris where art is everywhere and people have honed aimless roaming to an art form. She has visited and stayed several months at a time.