This book personifies the emigration experience, from first impressions and damning jobs to soul-sucking duties and emptiness, until our protagonist just wants to heal at home. Many South Africans, especially Afrikaner youth, feel or were told to feel the answers lie in finding home in another country. The protagonist was never home in New York, never comfortable, but tells an endearing, clearly sentimental story of his time there. A realist fiction. Beautiful in its awkwardness. Poetry at times.