Somewhere I Belong (el. knyga) (skaityta knyga) | knygos.lt

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A moving tale of betrayal, family, and belonging in the world

1959, Durban, South Africa: A Jewish father tells his nine-year-old daughter, Jo-Anne, "Don't think of this country as home. There'll be a bloody revolution here. Before it comes, we'll have to leave and find home elsewhere."

His words leave her feeling frightened, uprooted, and longing for a place to call home. Jo-Anne loves and trusts her father more than anyone in the world until the unimageable happens: He betrays her. He confides a secret to her husband who, during her divorce, uses the information to blackmail the family. Jo-Anne's father sandbags her into paying the steep price. She is left destitute. Her parents support her but constantly remind her that she is indebted to them.

She represses the betrayal and moves on to establish her life and career. Years later, she discovers a letter her father had written pressuring her to take the hit for the blackmail. Her confusion about her identity deepens. She re-examines her life in South Africa, a journey that leads her to explore her Jewish grandfathers who fled pogroms in Lithuania and Russia. How, she wonders, did their quests for home play out in her life? At last, she has an epiphany that enables her to find where she truly belongs.

Somewhere I Belong is a captivating work of auto-fiction with universal themes of love, betrayal, self-discovery, and home.