The library · Volume One
I Am an Immigrant
Leaving, Belonging, Becoming.
353 pages of narrative nonfiction built from lived experience and recorded conversations. It is the first book of an ongoing library, and the text that the rest of this project is built on.
- Pages
- 353
- Parts
- Six
- Author
- Dr. Lucas
Volume One · Narrative nonfiction
I Am an
Immigrant
Leaving, Belonging, Becoming
Jeff Magloire · Dr. Lucas
Inside the book
Six parts, one cycle
Part I
Before the Move
The country that made you, and the pressure that made leaving thinkable.
Part II
The Crossing
Departure, limbo, paperwork, and the long middle where a person belongs nowhere.
Part III
Arrival in the Middle of a Sentence
Language, school, work, and the daily labour of being partly understood.
Part IV
The Family Splits Into Stages
Fathers surviving, mothers holding, and children becoming inside one household.
Part V
The Border Inside
Grief, achievement, shame, and the years spent outrunning a history.
Part VI
The Relational Home
What it takes to be whole in a place you were not born in.
The library
This is book one of many.
Volume One
Available nowI Am an Immigrant
The foundation: the whole cycle told through one life and the lives it touched.
Volume Two
In researchThe Ones Who Stayed
Migration from the side of the people who did not move: parents, siblings, and villages.
Volume Three
In researchSecond Generation
Children of the move: inheritance, fluency, distance, and repair.