New Song in a Strange Land

We're reading a book in my African Book Club and it is about a woman who lived on a Firestone Tires rubber plantation in African in the 40's. She talks a lot about bugs and snakes and how she has to hunt her own food. It puts a lot of things in perspective for me when I'm complaining that the cook has frosted the cake with chives. She has a quote in the book and I will share it with you. I wanted to use it as my blog's page heading (I couldn't figure out how to do that), but I think it sums up expat life no matter where you are. Here goes...

"Somehow there must be a way to find deep beauty and song in daily living in this country. It would not be a ready-made happiness; it had to be discovered. For myself and my household I would have to find the way to make a new song in a strange land."

Ps. Can you guess the name of the book?