Urgent Calls from Distant Places. Boston, MA, Creemore Press. 2024

Available in hardcover, softcover, e-book and audiobook. 

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"Urgent Calls From Distance Places is not only a powerful and dramatic portrait of medical relief work in rural Africa, it’s a deeply-felt and utterly accurate critique of the cruel moral failings of American healthcare as well."

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"An enthralling portrait of high-wire emergency care performed under the most trying circumstances...The author’s gripping, evocative prose conveys the adrenalized pressure of emergency care...The result is a true-life medical drama that combines tense heroics with mordant reflections." - Kirkus Reviews

 

"Munk evokes the chaos and flurry of Africa’s larger cities alongside the desolation of desert landscapes, all in expert prose that smoothly transports readers into another world." - Publisher's Weekly Booklife  

 

            Quarter finalist for best non-fiction book of 2023 by Publisher’s Weekly Booklife Award

 

            Winner: Best travel book, 2024 Indiereader Discovery Award

 

            Finalist for best memoir, 2024 Eric Hoffer Book Award Award

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​Author Website Here

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Munk is represented by Dalyn Miller at the Torsk Literary Agency

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