Common Boundary: Stories of Immigration

by Gregory F. Tague (Editor), Eva Konstantopoulos (Contributor)

From the Preface by Publisher FREDERICKA A. "COMMON BOUNDARY includes many varieties of immigration stories. A culture is a country's language, its customs, and the collective thinking or attitude of the people . . . The shifting attitude . . . experienced over . . . English acquisition . . . represents a on the one hand, there is an attempt to accommodate someone from another country; on the other hand, the immigrant person is always perceived as something foreign. There's a common boundary - being part of and yet being apart from others." From the Foreword by JASON ". . . this book is really an anthology of a collection of stories in which the old inextricably blends with the new, in which the tensions between what has been lost and what can be gained are grappled with (but, inevitably, not resolved), and in which the human capacity to imagine a future and make it real (more or less) is explored from a variety of different perspectives. Here's the essential now that I am no longer there but here, Who am I? The answers, the stories - various, contingent, authentic - have made me, in a Whitman-esque sense, 'larger,' and they will you too. And so, when you're done reading, ask Who now am I?" COMMON BOUNDARY, list of Patty Somlo; Cassandra Lewis; George Rabasa; Rivka Keren; Janice Eidus; Mitch Levenberg; Ruth Sabath Rosenthal; John Guzlowski; Dagmara J. Kurcz; Rewa Zeinati; Roy Jacobstein; Ruth Knafo Setton; Eva Konstantopoulos; Nahid Rachlin; M. Neelika Jayawardane; Omer Hadziselimovic; Muriel Nelson; Azarin A. Sadegh; Tim Nees.

198 pages, Paperback

First published May 29, 2010

Reviews

[Dorothee Lang · Rating 5 out of 5]

A thoughtful collection that speaks to the times we are living in. I read it last year, and now revisited it while reading a novel about a woman who migrated from London to Tel Aviv. The collection also includes many quotes, and a foreword + introduction - it's one of the books to return to, to immerse in the many aspects of this global theme, and the many lives it affects.

I also blogged about it, with some quotes, here: http://virtual-notes.blogspot.com/201...

[Daily s-Press · Rating 5 out of 5]

A moving book - a combination of short stories + essays, and additional pages with quotes. A reminder that we are, too, an anthology of stories, history, and migrations of our ancestors. "All the World is One" / "And so who now am I?"

There also is a book feature in Daily s-Press: http://dailyspress.blogspot.com/2010/...