Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global
- ISBN-10
- 1857889711
- ISBN-13
- 9781857889710
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 228
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-11-18
- Publisher
- Nicholas Brealey
- Author
- Nina Sichel
Description
The experience of growing up without the opportunity to ever "put down roots" A fusion of voices and deeply personal experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's citizens of the world. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by both world-famous and first-time authors (many published here for the first time) make universal the story of growing up without the opportunity to ever feel rooted. Best-selling fiction and non-fiction authors Isabel Allende, Carlos Fuentes, Pat Conroy, Pico Iyer and Ariel Dorfman contribute powerful and deeply personal accounts of mobile childhoods and the cultural experiences they engender. The memoirs touch on both the benefits and the difficulties of growing up in the ever changing landscape of diplomatic, military and other expatriate communities.
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