Home Bound
Vanessa A. Bee
In this singular and intimate memoir of identity and
discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define “home” and
“belonging” — from her birth in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to her adoption by
her aunt and her aunt’s white French husband, to experiencing housing
insecurity in Europe and her eventual immigration to the US. After her
parents’ divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to
London, eventually settling in Reno, Nevada, as a teenager, right around
the financial crisis and the collapse of the housing market. At twenty,
still a practicing evangelical Christian and newly married, Vanessa
applied to and was accepted by Harvard Law School, where she was one of
the youngest members of her class. There, she forged a new belief
system, divorced her husband, left the church, and, inspired by her
tumultuous childhood, pursued a career in economic justice upon
graduation.
Vanessa’s adoptive, multiracial, multilingual,
multinational, and transcontinental upbringing has caused her to grapple
for years with foundational questions such as: What is home? Is it the
country we’re born in, the body we possess, or the name we were given
and that identifies us? Is it the house we remember most fondly, the
social status assigned to us, or the ideology we forge? What defines us
and makes us uniquely who we are?
Organized unconventionally
around her own dictionary-style definitions of the word “home,” Vanessa
tackles these timeless questions thematically and unpacks the many
layers that contribute to and condition our understanding of ourselves
and of our place in the world.
discovery, Vanessa A. Bee explores the way we define “home” and
“belonging” — from her birth in Yaoundé, Cameroon, to her adoption by
her aunt and her aunt’s white French husband, to experiencing housing
insecurity in Europe and her eventual immigration to the US. After her
parents’ divorce, Vanessa traveled with her mother to Lyon and later to
London, eventually settling in Reno, Nevada, as a teenager, right around
the financial crisis and the collapse of the housing market. At twenty,
still a practicing evangelical Christian and newly married, Vanessa
applied to and was accepted by Harvard Law School, where she was one of
the youngest members of her class. There, she forged a new belief
system, divorced her husband, left the church, and, inspired by her
tumultuous childhood, pursued a career in economic justice upon
graduation.
Vanessa’s adoptive, multiracial, multilingual,
multinational, and transcontinental upbringing has caused her to grapple
for years with foundational questions such as: What is home? Is it the
country we’re born in, the body we possess, or the name we were given
and that identifies us? Is it the house we remember most fondly, the
social status assigned to us, or the ideology we forge? What defines us
and makes us uniquely who we are?
Organized unconventionally
around her own dictionary-style definitions of the word “home,” Vanessa
tackles these timeless questions thematically and unpacks the many
layers that contribute to and condition our understanding of ourselves
and of our place in the world.
年:
2022
出版社:
Astra Publishing House
语言:
english
页:
258
ISBN 10:
1662601336
ISBN 13:
9781662601330
文件:
EPUB, 392 KB
IPFS:
,
english, 2022
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