Monique N. Leparleen

Monique has led one of the world's most interesting lives. She went from manyatta life to enterprising in Nairobi, traveling Europe and Israel alone, moving to America for study and marriage, fleeing Hurricane Katrina with her kids, and ultimately whisking her children to the furthest corner of America she could find: the tip of the Pacific Northwest. Here she now keeps her elegant, multilingual Samburu self, cosmopolitan and yet very down-to-earth, in a gleaming small city among huge lakes and soggy, chilly evergreen forests. Utterly out of place, but utterly at home.