Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global

In this one collection you will find not only the best of the internationally known literati who write about this experience (Pico Ayer, Isabelle Allende, Carlos Fuente...) but also the fresh and vibrant writings of lesser known yet equally powerful writers (Faith Eidse, Sara Taber, Camilla Trinchieri ...) To conclude saying the essays focus on misery is like concluding that trees take space; it is almost irrelevant. These essays are first hand accounts of the powerful experience of an international education, of opening one's mind to otherness, of finding a center in the whirlwind of mobility and the extremes of cultures that co-exist on earth.

In these writings, you feel what it was like to be there - you taste, and smell and see and hear, as if you were there. No matter your own experience - whether you lived in the same neighborhood for 21 years, or moved every six months for the first six - the experiences shared will shine a light no less stunning than the vistas from mountaintops or streams of sunlight through clouds. The vitality of the prose is the written equivalent of music videos. You will want to mark your copy up, share it with friends and then write your own experience.

This text will become a standard in high school and college classes on a fresh dimension of multiculturalism. The life giving force of these personal essays is the material from which evolutions in transnational culture are emerging. Kudos to those who brought it to fruition.