I'm a librarian, and I am very interested in cross-cultural work.  (I have spent much of my life working with developing library services for American Indians.  I have lived and worked on several reservations and taught in a one-room school in a village feast house.)  And my first job at 16 was on a bookmobile.  So you can see why I would like this book.  However, I think almost anyone would!  The Camel Bookmobile is the story of a young female librarian who leaves her happy single life in Manhattan for adventure and the lofty goal of  bringing books to small desert villages in Kenya.  For Fiona, it is a story of cross-cultural work, a professional turning points, and a bit of cross-cultural romance.  For Kenyan teenagers, Scar Boy and Kanika, there is also romance and desire for new experiences.   For others in Kenya, there are taboos, gossip, pride and loyalty.  This book brings up big questions about the effect of new knowledge on traditional life and questions the purposes of outsiders.  Or reading just for fun, The Camel Bookmobile  is somewhat like the  African series by  McCall Smith.