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Unbelonging: A Life in Search of Home

Autor Catherine Jagoe
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 18 aug 2026
“Where are you from?” For Catherine Jagoe, a set of complicated assumptions often lies behind this seemingly banal question. While partly an immigrant narrative, Jagoe’s memoir in essays is not so much—or not only—about moving to the US and putting down roots but rather more about feeling perpetually in-between and never quite “home.” Throughout, Jagoe wrestles with what identity and fidelity mean for a woman with three nationalities, a job as a translator who frequently lives in a fourth country, a history of depression, and chronically divided allegiances. Together, these essays paint a deeply personal yet incredibly relatable portrait of what it means to be an American—and an immigrant—in the twenty-first century. 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780299357948
ISBN-10: 0299357945
Pagini: 192
Ilustrații: 0 illus.
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: University of Wisconsin Press
Colecția University of Wisconsin Press

Cuprins

Prologue
The Home Goal: Variations on a Theme
Language Lessons
Watermarked
Brief Autobiography in Odors
Voracious
A Ring of Bells
On the Van Galder from Wisconsin to O’Hare
Homecoming Stew
Querencia
On Infidelity
Splitting
Fossils
Things That Matter
Sessile
June and the Clock
The Sense of an Ending
Finding the Springs
Acknowledgments

Recenzii

“Resonant. . . . [The] prose is rich and life-affirming; as a distanced yet never-detached observer, Jagoe’s keen perceptions and pensive curiosity illuminate mundane landscapes and moments. . . . The intimate yet encompassing memoir Unbelonging expresses poignant yearning for geographical and emotional connection.”

“Nature, including bodies of water to swim in and birds to seek and identify, become ways to ground Jagoe and finally give her a sense of place. The author’s outsider view offers some keen insights into each of these cultures as well as the universal longing for a place called home.”

“Jagoe’s casual brilliance and singular vision will leave you permanently changed. She deftly interrogates the complexities of origins and alienation, reminding us that home is less a geographical locus than a necessary habit of mind, a willingness to pay attention to how we are all radically connected to other people, to ecosystems, and to history.”

“In this wonderful, moving, and exquisitely written memoir in essays, Jagoe delves into the complexities of living in-between places and cultures, a state that challenges the very notion of home.”

“A rich and compelling memoir, written in stunningly beautiful and fluid prose. This elegantly orchestrated collection is also a propulsive read; entranced by Jagoe’s story, I inhaled it in one sitting.”

Notă biografică

Catherine Jagoe is a poet, essayist, and translator based in Madison, Wisconsin. Her collection Bloodroot won the Settlement House American Poetry Prize and the Council for Wisconsin Writers' Edna Meudt Award, and Praying to the God of Small Things was named an Outstanding Work of Poetry by the Wisconsin Library Association. A recipient of a Pushcart Prize, among several other honors, she has published nine full-length books and four chapbooks across genres. Her personal essays have aired numerous times on Wisconsin Public Radio's Wisconsin Life series.