Rachel Rebeccah Price Timeline & Summary

All Rachel worries about when her family moves to the Congo is her hair. How will she survive without Breck shampoo?
Eventually, as her mother becomes more reclusive, Rachel steps up to cook for her family. Rachael Ray, she ain't, but she tries.
Because her life really is a soap opera, the village chief, Tata Ndu, tries to buy Rachel as his next wife.
To prevent this from happening, the family says she's promised to creepy Eeben Axelroot. He takes advantage of their fake courtship to turn it into a real one.
He tells her government secrets, like the planned assassination of Lumumba, but Rachel's all like, whatevs.
When the ants come, Rachel uses a trick she learned in How to Survive 101 Calamities to get herself (and her favorite mirror) out of danger. The mirror, which probably wouldn't have been eaten by ants, breaks when Rachel drops it on the riverbank. Oops.
After Ruth May dies, Rachel follows her mother out of Kilanga but then flees to South Africa with Eeben Axelroot.
After a couple other marriages, Rachel finds herself in possession of The Equatorial, a charming whites-only hotel smack in the middle of Africa.
Oblivious and ignorant to the world around her, Rachel builds her own little happy place and lives in it. Denial's a river in Africa, and it runs right through Rachel's brain.