Begun during my adventures overseas, the Female Expat Project began as a collection of artworks about female expatriates and their original ideas about place. On the flip side of expatriates' nomadic lifestyles are contemporary nesting instincts—also explored in this blog. Really it's a publicly available sketchbook in the cloud supporting my artwork. http://joelledietrick.com
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Reloville
After taking a brief break from books on transnationalism, I just ordered the following two books:
Next Stop, Reloville: Life Inside America's New Rootless Professional Class by New York Times writer Peter Kilborn
Interview with Kilborn on To the Best of Our Knowledge http://www.wpr.org/book/090712a.cfm
Leaving America: The New Expatriate Generation by John Wennersten
We'll see how they go...I also found this US News article updating numbers on American's abroad (4 to 7 million). They keep moving around so they are hard to count! http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2008/07/28/a-growing-trend-of-leaving-america.htm