Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World

Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World

At 21, BelÃ©n left the U.S. and didn't look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she confronts violence, lechery, and places where itâ€™s hard to find a good glass of wine, and reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world.

After growing up in Washington, D.C. and Texas, and then attending Columbia University in New York, BelÃ©n FernÃ¡ndez ended up in a state of self-imposed exile from the United States. From trekkingâ€•through Europe, the Middle East, Morocco, and Latin Americaâ€•to packing avocados in southern Spain, to marrying a Palestinian-Lebanese man, to witnessing the violent aftermath of the 2009 coup in Honduras, the international travel allowed her by an American passport has, ironically, given her a direct view of the devastating consequences of U.S. machinations worldwide. For some years FernÃ¡ndez survived thanks to the generosity of strangers who picked her up hitchhiking, fed her, and offered accommodations; then she discovered people would pay her for her powerful, unfiltered journalism, enablingâ€•as of the present momentâ€•continued survival.

In just a few short years of publishing her observations on world politics and writing from places as varied as Lebanon, Italy, Uzbekistan, Syria, Mexico, Turkey, Honduras, and Iran, BelÃ©n FernÃ¡ndez has earned a place alongside Martha Gellhorn and Susan Sontag as one of the most trenchant observers of American actions abroad.
Country USA
Brand OR Books
Manufacturer OR Books
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2019-09-03
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781949017175

Country	USA
Brand	OR Books
Manufacturer	OR Books
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2019-09-03
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781949017175