Depicts the author’s different life from her surgeon husband’s during five years in the 1960s in remote Assam, India, on a mission hospital’s compound. Letters to her mother and mother-in-law portray the demands of adapting to a unique culture, diverse peoples, languages, and health concerns while teaching her four daughters and hosting innumerable guests. Letters to Mom by an American missionary mother sharing challenging experiences in Assam, India, in the 1960s.