Circling Home: What I Learned from Living Elsewhere

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When Terry Repak and her husband moved to West Africa with two small childrenat the height of the AIDS epidemic in the 1990s, she seized the opportunity toconnect with people of other cultures and bear witness to the ravages of the disease.Circling Homeprofound lessons at the heart of the expat journey.

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Terry Repak writes about her familys experiences as American expats in very personal ways, without being afraid of sharing some of the unvarnished realities. With candor and humility, she demonstrates how living overseas can be a rich and fulfilling experience. For Americans, she shows the value of opening ourselves to global perspectives and viewing the rest of the world differently while being more analytical of our own actions. Thank you for this warm, insightful contribution to global understanding and particularly to a more textured understanding of the beauty and the complexities of Africa.

Dr. Helene Gayle, President of Spelman College, former President and CEO of CARE, and former Director of the Centers for Disease Controls National Center (NCHSTP)

Anyone contemplating living abroad for either her own or a spouses career will find Terry Repaks memoir abouther familys long stints in two African nations and in Europe invaluable. While offering lots of practical advice, Terry shines in contemplating both the difficulties and the lasting enrichment she, her husband and children experienced.

Elizabeth Nelson Brown, author ofPlaying Boticelli

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Terry A. Repak studied journalism in college and worked as a reporter for a few years before returning to graduate school. She earned a masters 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.