Review: For expats during COVID, what does home even mean? A new memoir sheds light

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Review: For expats during COVID, what does home even mean? A new memoir sheds light
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.Rebeccamead_NYC's new memoir, “Home/Land,” about the metaphysics of repatriation, is a timely and powerful read.

. But Mead’s desire to move is not purely an urge to flee the president. After her father’s death, she wants to be closer to her mother. She wants to pass on to her son the pleasures of dual nationality. As much as anything, she fears regretting that “having at one time had the drive to launch myself into the unknown, I had never been sufficiently brave to try it again.”

In this “new, old territory of London,” she becomes preoccupied with the lives and deaths of her ancestors — proof, her husband jokes, that she’s truly become an American. City streets disinter memories. On a visit to the site of a London cemetery that was dug up to make way for a railway line, she finds “bones and skulls intermixing in the heavy clay soil.

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