How do you get a Great Dane onto an airplane? What happens when you have a medical emergency in a country where they don’t speak English? Can you find guacamole overseas, and if not, how will you survive a two-year tour of duty?



Longtime Foreign Service spouse, blogger and freelance writer Donna Scaramastra Gorman regularly fields questions from incoming FS family members, military spouses and expats, all wanting to know what they can expect of a life lived overseas. After years of responding to each request individually, and building on the success of her blog Email From the Embassy, she finally compiled her answers into a book.



Am I Going to Starve To Death? is the quirky result. Part memoir, part Q&A, part simple reassurance that yes, you can survive and thrive overseas, Gorman’s book provides detailed accounts of everything from bidding on jobs to having a baby to dealing with a crisis while overseas.



The book provides a wealth of information for longtime Foreign Service family members and newcomers alike. Whether you long ago embarked on your overseas adventures or are just getting started, Am I Going to Starve to Death? is a must-read for all international families.

