The Art of Coming Home Revised ed. Edition

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Expecting that the home will be the way it was when you left? Are you instead shocked to discover that both you and home have changed? The Art of Coming Home offers the solid advice you need to reduce the stress of making the transition home.

Leave-taking, the honeymoon stage, reverse culture shock, and eventual readjustment--The Art of Coming Home lays out the four stages of the reentry process and details practical strategies for dealing with the challenges you will face each step of the way. Veteran trainer, consultant, and world adventurer Craig Storti sketches the workplace challenges faced by returning business executives as well as the reentry issues of spouses, younger children, and teenagers. He also addresses in detail the special issues faced by exchange students, international volunteers, military personnel and their families, and missionaries and their children.

Whether you are a recent returnee or are just now thinking of moving abroad, The Art of Coming Home sets itself apart as it brings the process of returning home right to the heart of the overseas experience.

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A masterful, credible overview of the reentry process. Corporations, government bureaus, the military, and missionary groups would be wise to purchase a copy of Craig's book for each expatriate family.―Clyde Austin, Professor, Abilene Christian University

About the Author

Craig Storti is founder and co-director of Communicating Across Cultures, a Washington, D.C.-based intercultural communication training and consulting firm. With work appearing in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune, he is the author of six books. Having lived nearly a quarter of his life abroad, he lives now in Maryland. www.craigstorti.com

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Paperback: 228 pages
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey; Revised ed. edition (June 21, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1931930147
ISBN-13: 978-1931930147
Product Dimensions: 9 x 0.5 x 6 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
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A decent resource...

ByR. Petersonon August 5, 2000

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Of no surprise to anyone who has lived overseas and then attempted a successful 're-entry', coming home is tremendously more stressful and difficult than leaving home. Storti directs a company that designs and delivers seminars in cross-cultural adjustment, repatriation and multicultural diversity. Most striking about this book was how complex the issues are surrounding the re-entry of a family or person into a society and culture that no longer feels like his/her own. One of the most remarkable results of living overseas is that you come to understand your own culture much better and more clearly then those at home who are 'in' it. We experience this when we come home even for brief periods - the US is so enveloped in its high-consumerism that an outsider has difficulty finding value in the every day. While Americans have learned to absorb the 1000 cable channels, and 800 varieties of dog foods in the supermarket aisles, expatriates find it highly stressful to come back to a country where abundance, waste, and intense material comforts are the norm (after they've lived in places where all of these things are harder to find and they've adjusted thusly). Storti is also careful to speak to the frustrations that the homebound friends and family experience when their loved ones decend upon them after what they see as tremendous opportunities for cultural and personal growth. I found this book a very good resource and will likely pick it up again every time I am heading home - for a new series of stresses - to help remember why these stresses exist and how to soften them.

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Rings true to my repatriation experience

ByA customeron June 19, 2000

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This book captured and helped make sense of the unsettling experiences my wife and I had in returning to the US after four years living and working in England. I think the best time to read it might be before you leave, but I only found it after returning (and hearing the author speak to a group of repatriates).
The book includes good practical insights and suggestions for employees, employers and co-workers, spouses, families, and teens/kids experiencing what the book calls "reverse culture shock."

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Not a Complete Waste of Time, but...

ByDavid W. Allenon February 29, 2000

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I went into this book expecting a feast. Instead, I got table scraps.
While this is by no means an awful book, it is unbalanced and doesn't address the issues a large population of returnees face. Let me cite some examples: In my opinion, Storti spends too much time addressing the problems of corporate "organization people" who are sent overseas by the multinational corporations they work for. Poor Mr & Mrs Smith (and their children) had to endure all the corporate perks overseas; more autonomy, compensation, free accomodation, servants, etc. Then they have to come home to less power and prestige, no servants, and they have to pay off the luxury apartment. To top it off, no one understands them. My heart bleeds, as you can probably tell.
When Storti gets around to those less fortunate expatriates - Peace Corps Volunteers, Missionaries, Military Personnel - three quarters of the book is finished and you're wondering if the author has met any returnees in the last 20 years (since he started coordinating corporate "Repatriation Seminars") who are not managerial material.
The fact is that most people who go overseas are not corporate types. They go with a prearranged job or study plan and return, jobless, on their volition. They are students, English - and other subject - teachers, and aid/NGO workers who generally don't pull down the cash that Storti's seminar members do. In the end, what left me unsatisfied was the lack of balance and covert classism of this book.
To the book's credit, however, the author does provide some good advice for repatriation which I hope to use in a few months. For this reason, I am glad that people like Craig Storti are out there. However, there is not enough of this to go around. In the end, you wonder, like the old lady on American TV said, "Where's the beef?".

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Insightful!

ByRolf DobelliHALL OF FAMEon March 5, 2003

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If you spent months in Paraguay or Latvia longing for modern supermarkets, octo-plex movie theaters and mega-malls, coming home will surprise you. All that consumerism, all those different breakfast cereals, all that plenty and pizzazz may not play as well with you as you had remembered. Never mind. Eventually you�ll again expect to be offered 15 different kinds of herbal tea with your $18 lunch, but when you first return and the deprivations of your overseas station are still fresh, reentry can include a big shot of culture shock. Companies pay plenty of attention to executives and workers who need help and advice when they�re given an overseas assignment. But Craig Storti thought it was time to address the needs of those same expats when they return and face the challenge of readjustment. He does so expertly in this practical guide, which includes hard logistics and some soft psychology. We from getAbstract highly recommend this book to homecoming expats and to those who play crucial roles in managing their reentries.

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ByMelinda Hon January 14, 2014

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I have just moved back to the US after 4 years in China. I read it right before we moved. We only had a month notice though, before we moved and this book would be most helpful if you had a few more months to do the Leaving the right way. I appreciated the information, and that the book was on kindle as books are hard to get when you aren't in the US.

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ByJ. holton January 26, 2013

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The word 'helpful,' is small in comparison to what this book did for me. Very insightful and dependable on information for people who spend an extended amount of time away from home, including military, missionaries and employment connected.

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The author provides great help for both the person who is returning from ...

ByAmazon Customeron July 20, 2016

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The author provides great help for both the person who is returning from overseas work as well as children and spouses. There is good help for those who are receiving these people who are returning to their home country.

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Most Recent Customer Reviews

Five Stars

Great book.

Published on January 1, 2015 by lonetimber

My only disappointment was that he addressed primarily those who spent a ...

Storti addresses some of the problems and challenges one faces when coming home after living outside the U.S. for a time.Read more

Published on December 4, 2014 by Ed or Nancy Giddens

helps some

This is a good read if you live overseas and have trouble going to the states to visit family and friends yearly. It gave me some insight, but lots I already had a grasp.

Published on October 25, 2014 by Susan E. Hemmer

It was just "okay"

The book is good, fair. He often refers to people who spend a "couple" of years abroad, which I find annoying.Read more

Published on December 10, 2013 by Karen Huestis

The Art of Coming Home

The Art of Coming Home is an excellent introduction to a little known or understood concept: reverse culture shock.Read more

Published on April 19, 2011 by Ted

let down

This book killed all of our excitement about coming home and offers no usefool tools or resources. The author states the obvious and basically drones on on an about how horrible...Read more

Published on October 3, 2007 by Expat Tool

much appreciated

Craig Storti has made an important contribution to both people going to work in another culture and those returning to their home culture.

Published on July 26, 2006 by Tantut

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