{"product_id":"home-land-a-memoir-of-departure-and-return-paperback","title":"Home\/Land: A Memoir of Departure and Return - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRebecca Mead\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving reflection on the complicated nature of home and homeland, and the heartache and adventure of leaving an adopted country in order to return to your native land--this is a \"winsome memoir of departure and reversal . . . about the way a series of unknowns accrue into a life\" (Jia Tolentino, author of \u003ci\u003eTrick Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003ewriter Rebecca Mead relocated to her birth city, London, with her family in the summer of 2018, she was both fleeing the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world. With a keen sense of what she'd given up as she left New York, her home of thirty years, she tried to knit herself into the fabric of a changed London. The move raised poignant questions about place: What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a deft mix of memoir and reportage, drawing on literature and art, recent and ancient history, and the experience of encounters with individuals, environments, and landscapes in New York City and in England, Mead artfully explores themes of identity, nationality, and inheritance. She recounts her time in the coastal town of Weymouth, where she grew up; her dizzying first years in New York where she broke into journalism; the rich process of establishing a new home for her dual-national son in London. Along the way, she gradually reckons with the complex legacy of her parents. \u003ci\u003eHome\/Land \u003c\/i\u003eis a stirring inquiry into how to be present where we are, while never forgetting where we have been.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eREBECCA MEAD has been a staff writer at \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e since 1997. She has profiled many subjects and has contributed more than two hundred pieces to the Talk of the Town. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eOne Perfect Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMy Life in Middlemarch, \u003c\/i\u003e a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best seller. She has served as a McGraw Professor of Writing at Princeton University and is the recipient of a 2020 Guggenheim Fellowship. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.68 x 7.98 x 5.33 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 11, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51772638953760,"sku":"9780593081242","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2931f27cc094245a0aea2cb1dda3dfe8.webp?v=1780410250","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/home-land-a-memoir-of-departure-and-return-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}