This Way Back

This Way Back
ISBN-10
1949199665
ISBN-13
9781949199666
Category
Biography & Autobiography
Pages
264
Language
English
Published
2020
Publisher
In Place
Author
Joanna Eleftheriou

Description

"Going back to her ancestral homeland, a Greek American girl discovers she is a lesbian in love with God, so her questions about home and belonging will not be easily answered. This Way Back dramatizes a childhood split between Queens, New York, and Cyprus, an island nation with a long colonial history and a culture to which Joanna Eleftheriou could never quite adjust. While the author's life binds the essays in This Way Back into what reads like a memoir, the book questions memoir's conventional boundaries between the individual and her community, and between political and personal loss, the human and the environment, and the living and the dead"--

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