audiobook The Origins of the American Constitution: A Documentary History by From Michael Kammen in History

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“A marvelously thoughtful book . . . It is not just about emigrants and refuges. It is about us all.” –The New York Times When her parents brought her from the war-ravaged; faded elegance of her native Cracow in 1959 to settle in well-manicured; suburban Vancouver; Eva Hoffman was thirteen years old. Entering into adolescence; she endured the painful pull of nostalgia and struggled to express herself in a strange unyielding new language. Her spiritual and intellectual odyssey continued in college and led her ultimately to New York’s literary world yet still she felt caught between two languages; two cultures. But her perspective also made her a keen observer of an America in the flux of change. A classically American chronicle of upward mobility and assimilation. Lost in Translation is also an incisive meditation on coming to terms with one’s own uniqueness; on learning how deeply culture affects the mind and body; and finally; on what it means to accomplish a translation of one’s self. “Hoffman raises one provocative question after another about the relationship between language and culture . . . and about the emotional cost of re-creating oneself.” –Newsday