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02694aam a22003378i 4500 001 445F868A440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240717010108 008 230616s2024 onc 000 0 eng 020 $a 0385696566 020 $a 9780385696562 035 $a (OCoLC)1382524775 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d NLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d IMD $d SILO 042 $a lac 055 0 $a JV6013 V37 2024 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 100 1 $a Vassanji, M. G., $e author. 245 10 $a Nowhere, exactly : $b on identity and belonging / $c M.G. Vassanji. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Doubleday Canada, $c 2024. 300 $a 261 pages ; $c 22 cm 520 $a "From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world. Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract "nowhere," then, is the true home. M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades, drawing deeply on his own transnational upbringing and intimate understanding of the unique challenges and perspectives born from leaving one's home to resettle in a new land. The question of identity, of how to configure and see oneself within this new land, is one such challenge faced. But Vassanji suggests that a more fundamental and slippery endeavour than establishing one's identity is how, if ever, we can establish a sense of belonging. Can we ever truly belong in this new home? Did we ever truly belong in the home we left? Where exactly do we belong? For many, the answer is nowhere exactly. Combining brilliant prose, thoughtful, candid observation, and a lifetime of exploring how we as individuals are shaped by the places and communities in which we live and the history that haunts them, Nowhere, Exactly examines with exquisite sensitivity the space between identity and belonging, the immigrant experience of both loss and gain, and the weight of memory and nostalgia, guilt and hope felt by so many of those who leave their homes in search of new ones."-- $c Provided by publisher. 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 650 0 $a Immigrants $x Psychology. 650 0 $a Emigration and immigration $x Psychological aspects. 650 0 $a Identity (Psychology) 650 0 $a Belonging (Social psychology) 776 08 $i Online version: $a Vassanji, M. G. $t Nowhere, exactly. $d Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2024 $z 9780385697736 $z 9780385697736 $w (OCoLC)1395390073 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240717023113.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=445F868A440211EF98CC15ED37ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search