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A Memoir of Departure and Return
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A 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 Trick Mirror).
When the New Yorker writer 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?
In 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. Home/Land is a stirring inquiry into how to be present where we are, while never forgetting where we have been.
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De: Orhan Pamuk
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American Ghost
- A Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest
- De: Hannah Nordhaus
- Narrado por: Xe Sands
- Duración: 8 h y 37 m
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The dark-eyed woman in the long, black gown was first seen in the 1970s, standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas fireplaces turned off and on without anyone touching a switch. Glasses flew off shelves. And in one second-floor suite with a canopy bed and arched windows looking out to the mountains, guests reported alarming events.
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A true American tale
- De Cleo Colorado en 05-29-15
De: Hannah Nordhaus
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Beer Money
- A Memoir of Privilege and Loss
- De: Frances Stroh
- Narrado por: Erin Bennett
- Duración: 6 h y 37 m
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Frances Stroh's earliest memories are ones of great privilege: shopping trips to London and New York, lunches served by black-tied waiters at the Regency Hotel, and a house filled with precious antiques, which she was forbidden to touch. Established in Detroit in 1850, by 1984 the Stroh Brewing Company had become the largest private beer fortune in America and a brand emblematic of the American dream itself; while Stroh was coming of age, the Stroh family fortune was estimated to be worth $700 million.
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Beer boring
- De Richard E. Putt Jr. en 05-22-16
De: Frances Stroh
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The Dark Flood Rises
- A Novel
- De: Dame Margaret Drabble
- Narrado por: Anna Bentinck
- Duración: 13 h y 21 m
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Francesca Stubbs has a very full life. A highly regarded expert on housing for the elderly who is herself getting on in age, she drives restlessly round England. Amid the professional conferences she attends, she fits in visits to old friends, brings home-cooked dinners to her ex-husband, texts her son, who is grieving over the sudden death of his girlfriend, and drops in on her daughter, a quirky young woman who lives in a floodplain in the West Country.
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Life Observed By An Exceptional Writer
- De Sara en 03-22-17
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House of Stone
- A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East
- De: Anthony Shadid
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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When Anthony Shadid—one of four New York Times reporters captured in Libya as the region erupted—was freed, he went home, not to Boston, Beirut, or Oklahoma, where he was raised by his Lebanese American family, but to an ancient estate built by his great-grandfather, a place filled with memories of a lost era when the Middle East was a world of grace, grandeur, and unexpected departures.
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Bit depressing
- De Astrid Dahl en 03-17-12
De: Anthony Shadid
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Black Dog of Fate
- A Memoir
- De: Peter Balakian
- Narrado por: Peter Balakian
- Duración: 14 h y 17 m
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The first-born son of his generation, Peter Balakian grew up in a close, extended family, sheltered by 1950s and '60s New Jersey suburbia. He was immersed in an all-American boyhood defined by rock 'n' roll, adolescent pranks, and a passion for the New York Yankees that he shared with his beloved grandmother. But beneath this sunny world lay the dark specter of the trauma his family and ancestors had experienced: the Turkish government's extermination of more than a million Armenians.
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Great book!
- De Lm en 06-27-13
De: Peter Balakian
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Street Without a Name
- Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria
- De: Kapka Kassabova
- Narrado por: Emily Gray
- Duración: 10 h y 28 m
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Kassabova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, and grew up under the drab, muddy, gray mantle of one of communism’s most mindlessly authoritarian regimes. Escaping with her family as soon as possible after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, she lived in Britain, New Zealand, and Argentina, and several other places. But when Bulgaria was formally inducted to the European Union she decided it was time to return to the home she had spent most of her life trying to escape. What she found was a country languishing under the strain of transition. This two-part memoir of Kapka’s childhood and return explains life on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
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Good start, but ended up not liking the author
- De Giselle en 11-02-21
De: Kapka Kassabova
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Broadway
- A History of New York City in Thirteen Miles
- De: Fran Leadon
- Narrado por: Kevin Pariseau
- Duración: 14 h y 4 m
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Broadway takes us on a mile-by-mile journey that traces the gradual evolution of the 17th century's Brede Wegh, a muddy cow path in a backwater Dutch settlement, to the 20th century's Great White Way. We learn why one side of the street was once considered more fashionable than the other; witness construction of the Ansonia Apartments, Trinity Church, and the Flatiron Building and the burning of P. T. Barnum's American Museum; and discover that Columbia University was built on the site of an insane asylum.
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Give My Regards To Broadway!
- De Steven en 08-20-18
De: Fran Leadon
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The Sugar King of Havana
- The Rise and Fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba's Last Tycoon
- De: John Paul Rathbone
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Fifty years after the Cuban revolution, the legendary wealth of the sugar magnate Julio Lobo remains emblematic of a certain way of life that came to an abrupt end when Fidel Castro marched into Havana. Known in his day as the King of Sugar, Lobo was for decades the most powerful force in the world sugar market, controlling vast swaths of the island's sugar interests.
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VERY INFORMATIVE
- De Terry en 03-26-12
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In Manchuria
- A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
- De: Michael Meyer
- Narrado por: George Backman
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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For three years Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown of his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights.
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If you liked the Wonder Years...?
- De Judas Mallory en 05-19-15
De: Michael Meyer
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In the Great Green Room
- The Brilliant and Bold Life of Margaret Wise Brown
- De: Amy Gary
- Narrado por: Bernadette Dunne
- Duración: 7 h y 12 m
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The extraordinary life of the woman behind the beloved children's classics Goodnight Moon and The Runaway Bunny comes alive in this fascinating biography of Margaret Wise Brown. Margaret's books have sold millions of copies all over the world, but few people know that she was at the center of a children's book publishing revolution.
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Excruciatingly boring
- De Melissa S. en 01-31-19
De: Amy Gary
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Sunny's Nights
- Lost and Found at the Bar at the End of the World
- De: Tim Sultan
- Narrado por: Robert Malloch
- Duración: 8 h y 29 m
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Imagine that Alice had walked into a bar instead of falling down the rabbit hole. In the tradition of J. R. Moehringer’s The Tender Bar and the classic reportage of Joseph Mitchell, here is an indelible portrait of what is quite possibly the greatest bar in the world—and the mercurial, magnificent man behind it. The first time he saw Sunny’s Bar, in 1995, Tim Sultan was lost, thirsty for a drink, and intrigued by the single bar sign among the forlorn warehouses lining the Brooklyn waterfront.
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Visiting an Era
- De Carolyn en 03-01-16
De: Tim Sultan
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Come to the Edge
- A Memoir
- De: Christina Haag
- Narrado por: Christina Haag
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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When Christina Haag was growing up on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, John F. Kennedy, Jr., was just one of the boys in her circle of prep-school friends. A decade later, after they had both graduated from Brown University and were living in New York City, Christina and John were cast in an off-Broadway play together. It was then that John confessed his long-standing crush on her, and they embarked on a five-year love affair.
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Thoroughly enjoyed Come to the Edge
- De CapeCodLady en 11-15-19
De: Christina Haag
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The City of Falling Angels
- De: John Berendt
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 12 h y 52 m
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The author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil returns to give us an intimate look at the "magic, mystery, and decadence" of the city of Venice and its inhabitants.
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Do Yourself a Favor and Skip This Book!
- De AUDIBLE en 10-08-05
De: John Berendt
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Home/Land
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- Betsy Fowler
- 09-12-24
Memoir by writer Rebecca Mead
I've read articles in The New Yorker by British author Mead and always enjoyed them, so I found this story of her family"s move from New York City to London to be informative and sometimes entertaining. There is more personal history here than I anticipated, but Ms Mead writes so well that it was easy to glide through that and focus on London, and its contrast with New York.
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- 10-27-22
Lyrical and moving
This is a splendid book!
Anyone who has left home for another country, or another part of your home country, will identify with Mead’s insights and yearning. I loved her book on “Middlemarch” and so tried this one - it is similarly profound and funny and thought-provoking.
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