Home Is A Word I Carry: Gentle Illustrated Book for Anyone Who Belongs to Two Countries

You did not lose a home. You grew a second one.You left. You built a life somewhere new - a route to work, a regular table, a key that finally felt like yours. And still, some days, the room feels slightly borrowed.Then you go back, and the street you grew up on has kept going without you. The corner shop is a bank. Your friends have jokes you are not inside of. Someone calls you "the one who left," and means it warmly, and it lands somewhere else.If you have ever felt like a visitor in both directions, this book is for you.Home Is a Word I Carry is a quiet illustrated companion for anyone living between two countries. In original watercolour paintings and a few short lines on each page, it follows one woman from the last dinner at home to the moment she stops apologising for belonging to two places at once.It does not tell you to feel grateful, or settled, or over it. It tells you the truth: feeling foreign in both directions does not mean you failed at either. It means you went.A gift for someone who moved away - or for yourself, on the day you need it.