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Homelands: Women's Journeys Across Race, Place, and Time

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I own this book (and other anthologies by Seal Press) and have read it cover to cover. It is an important book and the stories are timely. The writing is excellent, fresh and insightful. The women in this book are courageous and their stories have made a deep impression on me. I plan to share the book with my friends.

The reviewer below is obviously not aware that Seal Press is a small feminist press that is doing really great work in publishing important books by women, experiences that are often overlooked in mainstream publishing. If you're looking for a travel book, this isn't it. If you're looking for rich stories that capture the essence of women's struggles to find home, then this book is perfect for you.

Through reading the Homelands Anthology, I am reminded that every woman I see on street, in the subway, at the market is holding a story in her heart that hearkens to the place that calls her. Whether she loves that home or struggles with it, whether she wants to return or never see it again, that home, family or culture is an inexorable part of her that affects her every step. Providing glimpses into the lives of American women who come from places as far-reaching as Latvia and Lebanon, as close as the Bronx and Oakland, this collection reminds us of our own discomfort when we are challenged by own identity, by society and by our own family. The editors Tumang and de Rivera wisely selected writers of several generations, familiar and unfamiliar cultures, and well as diverse classes and levels of education. They open a window on the enormous tragedies of loss and displacement and the smaller more intimate moments of acceptance at home and in the self. I am reminded of the many women who have taken the many journeys that brought me and everyone I know to this time and this place. I make it a point to support a book such as this that provides these kinds of histories that are not easy to find in the mainstream. I am choosing it as a text for my fall semester classes

i was not impressed by the writing and sent the book back