Two Taproots:Growing Up in the Forties in India and America (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

The memoir begins with the evacuation of a missionary family from India to America shortly after the start of World War II. It covers the next ten years of their lives. The taproots are India and America, with a lateral root, British India. The Thoburns were back in India for Indian independence, the bloody partition riots and the assassination of Gandhi. But the story is primarily personal -- family, boarding school life, experiences and impressions of growing up in two worlds. The label “Third Culture Kid” fits the author who conveys the privilege, and challenge, of such a life.