Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global

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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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A poignant chronicle of the diaspora of the heartand the hearts quest and longing for that universal place called home. -- Ken Wells, Front Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal
Unrooted Childhoods offers exquisite illustration of the global nomad experience. Readers who lived the life willsee reflected the many dimensions of their own unrooted childhoods. -- Barbara Schaetti, Ph.D., The Crestone Institute
Each [Third Culture Kid] has his or her unique story, but the shared experience of this cultural group furnishes clarity and perspective as well as comfort and encouragement. This bookis valuable to TCKs of all ages and to those who need and want to understand. -- David Pollock, Executive Director, Interaction International, Inc., coauthor of Third Culture Kids

Author Bio

Faith Eidse is an award-winning writer and author. The recipient of the Kingsbury Award and nominated for the Bellwether Prize, she grew up in Congo/Zaire, Canada, and the U.S. Nina Sichel was born in the U.S. and raised in Venezuela, is a writer, former editor and ESL teacher.