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A story of global travel, personal growth, and family responsibility through the lens of teenage girl in 1969.

Fifteen-year-old Jane was trapped. Trapped in high school in Dallas, Texas where her classes were too easy and her classmates were too conventional. Trapped in service to her mother, a polio survivor who used a wheelchair.

When her parents sold their automobile brake-repair business in 1969, they withdrew Jane from her high school to travel the world, visiting India, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Yugoslavia and Northern Europe. As she traveled, Jane was pushed to reconcile her dual role as responsible daughter and as teen in the late sixties, the era of Bobby Fischer, The Beatles, and Hair. Because the World is Round reckons with what it means to be an individual, a caretaker, and a traveler in a vast and changing world.

Because the World is Round

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A story of global travel, personal growth, and family responsibility through the lens of teenage girl in 1969. Fifteen-year-old Jane... Read more

    Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
    Publication Date: 12/01/2023
    ISBN13: 9781646052066, 978-1646052066
    ISBN10: 1646052064

    Number of Pages: 252

    Non Fiction , Biography

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    A story of global travel, personal growth, and family responsibility through the lens of teenage girl in 1969.

    Fifteen-year-old Jane was trapped. Trapped in high school in Dallas, Texas where her classes were too easy and her classmates were too conventional. Trapped in service to her mother, a polio survivor who used a wheelchair.

    When her parents sold their automobile brake-repair business in 1969, they withdrew Jane from her high school to travel the world, visiting India, Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, Yugoslavia and Northern Europe. As she traveled, Jane was pushed to reconcile her dual role as responsible daughter and as teen in the late sixties, the era of Bobby Fischer, The Beatles, and Hair. Because the World is Round reckons with what it means to be an individual, a caretaker, and a traveler in a vast and changing world.

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