Ruth Behar: Traveling Heavy | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9780822357209 | Traveling Heavy | A Memoir in between Journeys | Ruth Behar | Buch

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Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family, as well as the strangers who show her kindness as she makes her way through the world. Compassionate, curious, and unafraid to reveal her failings, Behar embraces the unexpected insights and adventures of travel, whether those be learning that she longed to become a mother after being accused of giving the evil eye to a baby in rural Mexico, or going on a zany pilgrimage to the Behar World Summit in the Spanish town of Béjar.
Behar calls herself an anthropologist who specializes in homesickness. Repeatedly returning to her homeland of Cuba, unwilling to utter her last goodbye, she is obsessed by the question of why we leave home to find home. For those of us who travel heavy with our own baggage, Behar is an indispensable guide, full of grace and hope, in the perpetual search for connection that defines our humanity.

Über den Autor

Ruth Behar was born in Havana, Cuba. She and her family moved to New York City when she was five. In the years since, she has become an internationally acclaimed writer and the Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. She is the author of many books, including An Island Called Home: Returning to Jewish Cuba; The Vulnerable Observer: Anthropology That Breaks Your Heart; and Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. In addition to her work as an anthropologist, Behar is a poet, a fiction writer, and a documentary filmmaker. She wrote, directed, and produced Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love), a film that has been shown at film festivals around the world. Behar has been honored with many prizes, including a MacArthur "Genius" Award.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part One: Family

The Key to the House

Learning English with Shotaro

El Beso

A Shepardi Air

The Book

The Day I Cried at Starbucks on Lincoln Road

A Tango for Gabriel

A Degree in Hard Work

La Silla

Part Two: The Kindness of Strangers

From Those Who Don't Forget You

A Gift from the Women of Mexquitic

The First World Summit of Behars

Unexpected Happiness in Poland

Part Three: Cuban Goodbyes

The Freedom to Travel Anywhere in the World

Cristy Always Prays for My Safe Return

An Old Little Girl

Acknowledgments

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Biographien , Importe
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780822357209
ISBN-10:	0822357208
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Behar, Ruth
Hersteller:	Duke University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße:	216 x 140 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Ruth Behar
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.08.2014
Gewicht:	0,35 kg