The Beginning of Leaving

by Elsa Valmidiano

Book Overview

Elsa Valmidiano's The Beginning of Leaving is a hybrid collection of journalistic prose and lyrical essays, weaving a personal examination of how leaving not only reflects a picture of immigration and the diaspora, but how migration through generations compels any individual to honor the Motherland we left behind, and acknowledge whose land we now inhabit and have adopted as our own. In these essays, leaving is not simply a finite act but a process...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 195911848X
• ISBN13: 9781959118480
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Querencia Press, LLC
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"