CONTENTS Living in the Transit Lounge, Pico Iyer SECTION ONE: ENRICHMENT Rain Light, Sara Mansfield Taber A Minnesota Girl in the Holy Land, Kathleen Anderson Snakes and Angels, Eileen Drew Arabian Nights, Isabel Allende SECTION TWO: ESTRANGEMENT A String of Beads, Camilla Trinchieri Undiscovered Nation, Pat Conroy Outside Looking In, Mary Edwards Wertsch Embers, Faith Eidse Letters Never Sent, Ruth Van Reken Diving In, Nancy Henderson-James SECTION THREE: ROOTLESSNESS Going Home, Nina Sichel To See and See Again, Tara Bahrampour Breath Roots, Anora Egan Memories of Unhousement, Claire Blaise SECTION FOUR: IDENTITY Displacements, Peter Ruppert Beyond Silence, Lisa Suhair Majaj A Bilingual Jounrey, Ariel Dorfman How I Started to Write, Carlos Fuentes American Chica, Marie Arana

Faith Eidse is an award-winning writer and author. The recipient of the Kingsbury Award and nominated for the Bellwether Prize, she grew up in Congo/Zaire, Canada and the U.S.

Nina Sichel was born in the U.S. and raised in Venezuela, is a writer, former editor and ESL teacher.

”A poignant chronicle of the diaspora of the heart—and the heart’s quest and longing for that universal place called home.”--Ken Wells, Front Page Editor, The Wall Street Journal

”Unrooted Childhoods offers exquisite illustration of the global nomad experience. Readers who lived the life will…see reflected the many dimensions of their own unrooted childhoods.”—Barbara Schaetti, Ph.D., The Crestone Institute

”Each [Third Culture Kid] has his or her unique story, but the shared experience of this cultural group furnishes clarity and perspective as well as comfort and encouragement. This book…is valuable to TCKS of all ages and to those who need and want to understand.”—David Pollock, Executive Director, Interaction International, Inc., coauthor of Third Culture Kids