A boy explores memories of others to escape enslavement. Once free, he learns of a larger conflict between a forgotten collective past, the focused search to unearth it, and an awakening of brethren at grand scale potentially powerful enough to rewrite history's dark pages. As he awakens to his own abilities and the danger of re-enslavement lurks, the boy must decide his role in the conflict between captors and prisoners, between freedom and truth.
Attending three high schools in three different countries (Indonesia, China, and the United States) exposed me to rare and vibrant cultural diversity in a formative period of my intellectual, social, and emotional development. Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, this story imagines a subtle cross-cultural relationship that I suppose my peers experienced, too, but that I also suspect is less known to most readers by virtue of the limited pool of children worldwide that were raised in such an environment.
Poem selected and included in Third Culture Kid anthology.
Book description from Amazon: Your mother is Swiss, your father is from the Philippines and you have so far lived in five countries, none of them your passport country. Who are you? Where are you from? Where is home? And what did you eat for breakfast? If you are a friend, this book will guide you. If you are a teacher, it will enlighten you. If you are a parent, it will spell it out for you and if you are an employer, it will convince you. Here they are, the cultural chameleons, the young global nomads, the TCKs – Third Culture Kids – from around the world, telling you their story. They gave us their words and art, so that finally there is a book BY them and not ABOUT them.