Expat Women's True Tales of Life Abroad

by Henry de Tessan, Christina

• ISBN13: 9781580050708
• ISBN10: 1580050700
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-20
• Publisher: Seal Press

Summary

An inspiring collection of writing by female expatriates follows dozens ofomen on globe-trotting adventures that will take them as far afield asorneo, China, and the Ukraine. Original.

Author Biography

Christina Henry de Tessan has worked in publishing in San Francisco and Seattle and as a freelance translator, editor, and book reviewer in Paris. She recently coedited A Woman Alone: Travel Tales from Around the Globe. She lives on an island outside of Seattle.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Before and after Mexico	1	(9)
Gina Hyams
A Taste of Home	10	(8)
Tonya Ward Singer
The Liverpool School of Dream and Pun	18	(26)
Rhiannon Paine
The Long Conversation	44	(14)
Deryn P. Verity
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackboard	58	(23)
Leza Lowitz
Jean-Claude Van Damn That Was a Good Movie!	81	(8)
Emily Wise Miller
Mediterranean Thanksgiving, Take Two	89	(18)
Mandy Dowd
When the Skinheads Start to Grow Hair, Its Time to Leave Town	107	(13)
Angeli Primlani
Watching Them Grow Up	120	(13)
Laura Fokkena
Wasabi Was the Bitter Herb	133	(13)
Karen Rosenberg
Making a Stir-Fry in Eastern Europe	146	(7)
Stephanie Loleng
Muddy Waters in Borneo	153	(17)
Meg Wirth
Never-Never	170	(15)
Juleigh Howard-Hobson
First, the Blanket	185	(10)
Kate Baldus
Beautiful New World	195	(16)
Emmeline Chang
Saudades	211	(11)
Eliza Bonner
In Search of Zorba	222	(19)
Marci Laughlin
Living the Dream in Paris	241	(11)
Christina Henry de Tessan
Conversation in Denmark	252	(11)
Lesley-Ann Brown
Best Friends and Balaclavas	263	(13)
Erica Jacobs
Growing Season	276	(8)
Sadie Ackerman
Kashmar	284	(15)
Julie van Arcken
About the Contributors	299	(6)
About the Editor	305