Meeting Miss Irby

In 1855 a wealthy 24-year-old English woman Adeline Paulina Irby left her London home to search for her purpose in life. By a strange turn of events she ended up in Sarajevo where she stayed and became a national hero. In 1999 an average 22-year-old man left his home in the United States to live in the Balkans for a year. There-in the most unlikely city on the other side of the world-he not only found another Irby but also a purpose for his life. This creative memoir reveals that extraordinary things happen when ordinary people search for meaning and instead discover love.