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Book SynopsisA memoir of a life in exile. Anca Vlasopolos recounts her life's journey from Romania to Paris and Brussels, then on to the United States. She writes about the peculiar attributes of displacement in the comtemporary world; the ambiguous identities, and the nostalgia for places dimly recalled.
Trade ReviewNeither Anca nor her mother has a return address, and this absence, like her mother's stories of Auschwitz, sensitively retold, haunts the book. -- Robert Eaglestone Times Literary Supplement [Vlasopolos's] insightful autobiography easily reads like fiction... Vlasopolos is clearly as talented as she is erudite... her memoir conveys... a unique perspicacity worthy of accolades. Library Journal
Table of ContentsForeword Chronology 1. Mouthfuls 2. Gatekeepers 3. Out of the Mouth 4. The Vocabulary of Faith 5. Mud Miracles 6. To Eat or Not to Eat 7. Bucharest 8. Contingencies 9. Telling Tales 10. Growing Boys 11. Paris 12. Brussels 13. Walls 14. Frankfurt Passage 15. Misplacing Detroit 16. Where All the Lights Were Bright 17. Variations on the Pastoral 18. Sub-Urban Skies 19. Endings, Continuities 20. Returns
