Letters of Transit: Reflections on Exile, Identity, Language, and Loss
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All of the award-winning writers in Letters of Transit have written powerfully on exile, home, and memory, using the written word as a tool for revisiting their old homes or fashioning new ones. Now, in five original essays, they offer moving meditations on these themes.Daniel ZalewskiThe five eloquent writers included...suggest that an uprooted life can, paradoxically, become a more fertile one....Aciman, whose Jewish family left Egypt during the presidency of Gamal Abdel Nasser, is careful not to glamorize the exile's life... — The New York Times Book Review
Editor's Foreword: Permanent Transients7Shadow Cities15The New Nomads35Imagining Homelands65No Reconciliation Allowed87Refugees115Acknowledgments137About the Authors139
