You're Not from Around Here, Are You?

This book is my Memoir: Not long ago I returned from a summer of research in Germany. After I took the shuttle from the airport in Oklahoma City to Norman and settled back into my house, I realized we needed an item that required a trip to a department store. Standing in line at the cash register I spoke to the cashier, when the woman behind me said: You re not from around here, are you? No, I answered. It was a question I had heard many times. In fact I had just heard it in German when boarding my plane at the Frankfurt Airport. The author writes of her experiences as a refugee from Eastern Germany, an immigrant to Canada and later to the United States, and her family s struggles with life after World War II. This story of loss and suffering is told with humor and sometimes sadness. Ultimately, the family adjusts and even flourishes. They found a new home in the United States. -"