Amy Carmichael was a prolific writer and Christian missionary. She is notable for having spent over 55 years serving the people of India without so much as a single furlough. Things as They Are is arguably Carmichael s best known work on her missionary efforts in Southern India. A riveting account of the dilapidated and impoverished conditions of the nation and its people, Things as They Are offers the reader a valuable look into the past at a corner of the world that has received limited exposure.