Books by KLD

Trailing: A Memoir

Something unexpected occurs when Kristin Louise Duncombe moves to New Orleans to begin her adult life as a psychotherapist: She falls madly in love with a Médecins Sans Frontières doctor, abandons all of her plans, and follows him on a medical mission to East Africa.

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Five Flights Up: Sex, Love, and Family, from Paris to Lyon

"How can you be sick of living in Paris?"

Life unravels when American psychotherapist Kristin Louise Duncombe faces being uprooted again- this time to follow her husband from their secure nest in Paris to bourgeois Lyon.

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OBJECT: A Memoir

What happens when an American diplomat is exposed as a sexual abuser of young girls?
In her searing memoir, Duncombe takes us back to her childhood in West Africa, where her life is a tapestry of lazy family days by the pool and secret abuse at the hands of an esteemed member of the close-knit US Embassy community.

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