An ordinary girl from a poor fishing village who might have inherited the unremarkable life of a fisherman’s wife had fate not intervened in rural colonial Java
The Girl from the Coast
Matthew Borden
Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Matt studied Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. While there and abroad he focussed on a number of projects related to critical development studies, poverty & anti-poverty, immigration, and nationalism & identity politics. He has served as Editor-in-Chief of Leviathan Jewish Journal, and designed the first impact assessment of Grameen Bank in Mexico. He is currently living embedded as an English teacher for Peace Corps in a small but bustling city of half a million in East Java.