Notes from the Bottom of the World - Suzanne Adam

Notes from the Bottom of the World

A Life in Chile

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2018
She Writes Press (Verlag)
978-1-63152-415-8 (ISBN)
16,20 inkl. MwSt
In 1972 a California woman follows her boyfriend to his native Chile and never returns. In these heartfelt personal essays, Adam attempts to balance the sense of loss (of family, friends, and homeland) that followed with sparks of pleasure and satisfaction in her Chilean life, while exploring how her American past and move to Chile have shaped her life and enriched her world view.
Chile - named the Lonely Planet 2017 destination of the year - has been Suzanne Adam's home for over four decades. She knows the territory - its culture, its idiosyncrasies, and its exotic landscapes, from Patagonian glaciers to the northern Atacama Desert. In this heartfelt collection of sixty-three personal essays, she searches for universal truths and sparks of beauty revealed in small, daily moments both in her native land - the United States - and in Chile. She considers how her American past and move to Chile have shaped her life and enriched her worldview, and she explores with insight questions on aging, women's roles, spiritual life, friendship, love, and writers who inspire. In a return trip to Colombia fifty years after her two-year stay there as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Adam reflects on the mark left on her by that experience. Finally, she crosses America from east to west, immersing herself in regional cultures and discovering a common thread of reciprocity throughout.

A California native, Suzanne Adam served in the Peace Corps in Colombia before moving to Santiago, Chile in 1972 to marry her boyfriend, Santiago. She explores how this experience shaped her life in her 2015 memoir Marrying Santiago. Adam admits to being a tree-hugger, avid reader, nature writer, gardener, CNN news junkie, bird watcher, lover of storms and laughter, and doting granny. Before turning to writing, she worked as a teacher of learning-disabled children. Her essays have been published in The Christian Science Monitor, California Magazine, the Marin Independent Journal, Nature Writing, and Persimmon Tree. She blogs at www.tarweedspirit.blogspot.com.

Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Briefe / Tagebücher
Reisen Reiseberichte Südamerika
Reisen Reiseberichte Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
Reiseführer Südamerika Chile
Reisen Reiseführer Australien / Neuseeland / Ozeanien
ISBN-10 1-63152-415-1 / 1631524151
ISBN-13 978-1-63152-415-8 / 9781631524158
Zustand Neuware
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