Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics
Born in 1941 of a Hawaiian mother and a white father, Gene H. Bell-Villada, grew up an overseas American citizen. An outsider wherever he landed, he never had a ready answer to the innocuous question... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:1578067200
ISBN13:9781578067206
Release Date:March 2005
Publisher:University Press of Mississippi
Length:260 Pages
Weight:1.15 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 8.2"
Customer Reviews
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Overseas American: Growing Up Gringo in the Tropics
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
Overseas American is an amazing story of a boy growing up under very difficult family circumstances and learning how to meet his own spiritual and physical needs. As an "overseas American" I found it fascinating to find we had many shared experiences growing up in Latin American and in returning to the United States. I highly recommend this book.
Valuable insights
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
Gene Bell-Villada's memoir is a poignant view of a boy growing up in the midst of cultural, linguistic and scholastic confusion. In addition, he convincingly captures his child view as his parents flounder and eventually dissolve the family unit. This frank and instructive tale is a much needed addition to the "third culture kid" literature as more people find themselves the offspring of cross-cultural and inter-racial marriages brought up in world venues not connected with either parent and devoid of anchoring safety nets.
An absorbing, insightful and moving account of growing up abroad and coming of age "at home"
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Having grown up an "overseas American," I found this book to be an honest, perceptive and touching account, resonating with some of my own experiences. It is also a tale of a harrowing home life (more accurately, lack thereof), of poignant self-discovery and redemption livened by a wry sense of humor. A compelling personal story with universal appeal. Highly recommended.
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