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Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World

Exile: Rejecting America and Finding the World

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At 21, Bel n left the U.S. and didn't look back. Alone, far off the beaten path in places like Syria and Tajikistan, she confronts violence, lechery, and places where it's hard to find a good glass of wine, and reflects on what it means to be an American in a largely American-made mess of a world.

After growing up in Washington, D.C. and Texas, and then attending Columbia University in New York, Bel n Fern ndez ended up in a state of self-imposed exile from the United States. From trekking--through Europe, the Middle East, Morocco, and Latin America--to packing avocados in southern Spain, to marrying a Palestinian-Lebanese man, to witnessing the violent aftermath of the 2009 coup in Honduras, the international travel allowed her by an American passport has, ironically, given her a direct view of the devastating consequences of U.S. machinations worldwide. For some years Fern ndez survived thanks to the generosity of strangers who picked her up hitchhiking, fed her, and offered accommodations; then she discovered people would pay her for her powerful, unfiltered journalism, enabling--as of the present moment--continued survival.

In just a few short years of publishing her observations on world politics and writing from places as varied as Lebanon, Italy, Uzbekistan, Syria, Mexico, Turkey, Honduras, and Iran, Bel n Fern ndez has earned a place alongside Martha Gellhorn and Susan Sontag as one of the most trenchant observers of American actions abroad.

Author: Belén Fernández
Publisher: OR Books
Published: 09/03/2019
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781949017175

About the Author
BELÉN FERNÁNDEZ, a contributing editor at Jacobin Magazine, graduated from Columbia University with a BA in English. She frequently writes for Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, and Jacobin.

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