I discovered a new book about third culture kids!

Posted: 16th December 2011 by admin in Uncategorized

I am so excited. I just discovered a new book all about third culture kids. I just can’t wait to get my hands on it. I have a love for books anyway, but if the books are on subjects that I am interested about then the love is even greater. On Amazon I discovered that this book has 498 pages, so there’s lots of “food for thought” there. The book has only just been published: 1st of December 2011, by Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

The new book “Writing Out of Limbo: the International Childhood Experience of Global Nomads and Third Culture kids” by Gene H. Bell-Villada and Nina Sichel with Faith Eidse and Elaine Neil Orr. For a sample of the book, including the table of contents click here.

 

Here’s what I read about the book that made my heart beat faster:

 

In this groundbreaking collection, writers from around the world address issues of language acquisition and identity formation, childhood mobility and adaptation, memory and grief, and the artist’s struggle to articulate the experience of growing up global. And, woven like a thread through the entire collection, runs the individual’s search for belonging and a place called “home.” 

 

About the authors: Gene H. Bell-Villada, born in Haiti of US parents, was raised in Puerto Rico, Cuba and Venezuela. A professor of Romance Languages at Williams College (Massachusetts), he is the author or editor of ten books, including a TCK memoir, Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics (2005). Nina Sichel is co-editor, with Faith Eidse, of Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global (2004), the first collection of memoirs by Third Culture Kids and Global Nomads. Raised among expats in Venezuela, she relocated many times as an adult, and currently leads memoir and guided writing workshops near Washington, DC.

 

This is what others say about the book:

 

“Well-grounded in classical perspectives and new visions of what it means to live in an intercultural world, the book offers a wonderful array of memoir, research, interviews, theory and even poetry. There’s something for everyone here!” Anne P. Copeland, PhD, Director, The Interchange Institute

 

“I recommend this book to all parents who are creating TCKs; to teachers and professors of TCKs; for general reading and understanding of the making of a citizen of the world; and, finally, to TCKs themselves, who will see that their experiences are shared with many others.” Linda A. Garvelink, President, Foreign Service Youth Foundation

 

As I read about the book I think this is a “must have” for anybody doing research on third culture kids or cross cultural kids. I am glad that there is an increasing amount of books and information available for parents, teachers, therapists, adult third culture kids and anyone interested in this subject. Thanks for publishing this book!

 

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  1. Anonymous says:

    Hi Genevieve, Thanks for your encouraging words! I would love to read what you are writing and give you feedback. I started my blog half a year ago, I am a TCK and I just have this urge to read and write about it. I want to increase the awareness especially here in the Netherlands, there are many people who have never heard of the term. There is also a problem in the translation, because I have not found a good translation into Dutch for the term “third culture kid”. If anyone can help me with that, please!

    I am so glad that there is an increasing amount of information available about TCKs on the web.

    You can follow me on twitter too, if you are interested. @DrieCulturen

    Have a great Christmas season!