Circling Home
What I Learned from Living Elsewhere
Seiten
2023
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-64742-545-6 (ISBN)
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-64742-545-6 (ISBN)
Catching the travel bug at age twenty, Terry Repak longed to live overseas someday. She didn’t foresee spending fifteen years in countries like Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Switzerland; nor did she guess that living abroad would transform her and her family into global citizens and gift them with resilience, perspective, and a profound sense of home.
Terry Repak and her partner moved to West Africa with two small children at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s. He did AIDS work while she wrote and raised their children to become global citizens like their parents. Living in different countries̵—from Ivory Coast and Tanzania to Switzerland—Terry embraced every opportunity to meet people of other cultures and to bear witness to the ravages of AIDS. Like many expats, she was torn between the pull of home when a parent’s health declined or her siblings needed help and the draw of epic landscapes and foreign cultures. The lessons she learned while living overseas—though not always easy—were deeply transformative.
Candid, thoughtful, and instructive, Circling Home explores the notion of home and of how the bonds we form with people from other countries and cultures can profoundly change us.
Terry Repak and her partner moved to West Africa with two small children at the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s. He did AIDS work while she wrote and raised their children to become global citizens like their parents. Living in different countries̵—from Ivory Coast and Tanzania to Switzerland—Terry embraced every opportunity to meet people of other cultures and to bear witness to the ravages of AIDS. Like many expats, she was torn between the pull of home when a parent’s health declined or her siblings needed help and the draw of epic landscapes and foreign cultures. The lessons she learned while living overseas—though not always easy—were deeply transformative.
Candid, thoughtful, and instructive, Circling Home explores the notion of home and of how the bonds we form with people from other countries and cultures can profoundly change us.
Terry A. Repak studied journalism in college and worked as a reporter for a few years before returning to graduate school. She earned a master’s degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD at Emory University. She and her partner lived in East and West Africa as well as in Europe, where he worked in the AIDS field and Terry wrote and raised their children. She has authored two other non-fiction books, numerous travel articles for newspapers and magazines, and her research has been published in academic journals. She lives in Seattle where she continues to write, to teach English to foreign language learners (ELL) and to garden, hike, and swim.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.08.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Illustrations, unspecified |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 139 x 215 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64742-545-X / 164742545X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64742-545-6 / 9781647425456 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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