This book is a collection of essays from Foreign Service Officers (FSO’s) and spouses, many of which seem to have already been published in the American Foreign Service Association. (www.asfa.com)
The book is roughly organized into the categories in areas like family life, living abroad, working at the State Department etc. Unfortunately this meant that only a small portion of the book contained information that I was really looking for- details about working for the state department. The plurality of the book deals with marriage in the Foreign service.
For the parts that I was interested in, it contains interesting stories of personal experiences and examples of how the state department will react in emergencies. All in all the book seems to serve as a warning that “You won’t have the things you want when you’re in the middle of nowhere.” Hopefully everyone who reads the book already knew that.