Return, Kamal AlSolaylee
Return, Kamal AlSolaylee
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Return
Why We Go Back to Where We Come From

Author: Kamal Al-Solaylee

Narrator: Fajer Al-Kaisi

Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/07/2021

Synopsis

A Globe and Mail, Hill Times and CBC Best Book of the YearHave you ever wondered what it would be like to return to your roots?Drawing on astute political analysis and extensive reporting from around the world, Return: Why We Go Back to Where We Come From illuminates a personal quest. Kamal Al-Solaylee, author of the bestselling and award-winning Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes and Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), yearns to return to his homeland of Yemen, now wracked by war, starvation and daily violence, to reconnect with his family. Yemen, as well as Egypt, another childhood home, call to him, even though he ran away from them in his youth and found peace and prosperity in Canada.In Return, Al-Solaylee interviews dozens of people who have chosen to or long to return to their homelands, from Basques to Irish to Taiwanese. He does make a return of sorts himself, to the Middle East, visiting Israel and the West Bank, as well as Egypt. A chronicle of love and loss, of global reach and personal desires, Return is a book for anyone who has ever wondered what it would be like to return to their roots.

About Kamal Al-Solaylee

KAMAL AL-SOLAYLEE is the author of the national bestseller Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes, which won the 2013 Toronto Book Award and was a finalist for CBC’s Canada Reads, as well as the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction. His second book, Brown: What Being Brown in the World Today Means (to Everyone), was hailed as “brilliant” by the Walrus magazine and “essential reading” by the Globe and Mail. A finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Non-fiction as well as the Trillium Book Award, Brown won the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. A two-time finalist for the National Magazine Awards, Al-Solaylee won a gold medal for his column in Sharp in 2019. He holds a PhD in English and is director of the School of Journalism, Writing, and Media at the University of British Columbia.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Deanne on August 11, 2017

The Return is book 3 in the Amish Beginnings series. This book is not a stand alone and the series must be read in order to fully understand the story. It starts with Anna's Crossing,continues with The Newcomer and continues with this book. I read the author said she may continue the series if there......more

Goodreads review by Victoria on October 23, 2017

Overall I found the book incredibly insightful into a time that isn’t often written about. I rarely see pre-revolutionary war stories these days. And with the Amish and Mennonite hints interwoven, it made this story quite interesting. Characters The people in this book are well crafted, interesting, an......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on August 23, 2017

The complex dynamics of the characters in this book were so compelling amidst the trials they faced. There are multiple perspectives the story is told from which made it so interesting and the pace moved swiftly forward. Anna and Bairn from the first two books were influential as Tessa's parents and......more

Goodreads review by DianFlow on July 22, 2017

Suzanne Woods Fisher has shown her versatility and expertise as an author as never before in her enthralling new saga, The Return. The readers' emotions are immediately swept away on a violent incursion by savage Indians against the first Amish settlers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Beautifully......more

Goodreads review by Carole on August 11, 2017

Reviewed at The Power of Words: [URL not allowed] As with all that Suzanne Woods Fisher writes, The Return is incredible. I won’t go so far as to say that it’s the best book she has written because each story is unique and never fails to touch me, but there is something special about this one. Fro......more

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