sunstone reviewed Third Culture Kids by David C. Pollock
Life changing
5 stars
I first began to read this book in 2017 and only finished it today.
A lot of it was an awakening: oh, I’m not alone, there’s a name for so much of what my life experience has been, and there are others like me.
It took me 5 years to finish this book because it has been an emotionally complicated journey. This book was teaching me things about myself and I didn’t have the bandwidth to take it all in. I read a chapter here and there, sometimes going an entire year or two in between, while I dealt with more urgent emotional bridges to cross.
If you are an immigrant of any kind, or you ever have the experience of code switching, or having to straddle multiple cultures, I highly recommend this book. Most of it is quite extreme and may not apply to you, but I guarantee you’ll …
I first began to read this book in 2017 and only finished it today.
A lot of it was an awakening: oh, I’m not alone, there’s a name for so much of what my life experience has been, and there are others like me.
It took me 5 years to finish this book because it has been an emotionally complicated journey. This book was teaching me things about myself and I didn’t have the bandwidth to take it all in. I read a chapter here and there, sometimes going an entire year or two in between, while I dealt with more urgent emotional bridges to cross.
If you are an immigrant of any kind, or you ever have the experience of code switching, or having to straddle multiple cultures, I highly recommend this book. Most of it is quite extreme and may not apply to you, but I guarantee you’ll find something in here that opens something up in you that you didn’t know was there.