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Traveling Heavy

Traveling Heavy

A Memoir in between Journeys

  • Author: Behar, Ruth
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9780822354673
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780822378327
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2013
  • Month: April
  • Pages: 248
  • DDC: 305.892/4073092
  • Language: English
Traveling Heavy is a deeply moving, unconventional memoir by the master storyteller and cultural anthropologist Ruth Behar. Through evocative stories, she portrays her life as an immigrant child and later, as an adult woman who loves to travel but is terrified of boarding a plane. With an open heart, she writes about her Yiddish-Sephardic-Cuban-American family, as well as the strangers who show her kindness as she makes her way through the world. Compassionate, curious, and unafraid to reveal her failings, Behar embraces the unexpected insights and adventures of travel, whether those be learning that she longed to become a mother after being accused of giving the evil eye to a baby in rural Mexico, or going on a zany pilgrimage to the Behar World Summit in the Spanish town of Béjar.

Behar calls herself an anthropologist who specializes in homesickness. Repeatedly returning to her homeland of Cuba, unwilling to utter her last goodbye, she is obsessed by the question of why we leave home to find home. For those of us who travel heavy with our own baggage, Behar is an indispensable guide, full of grace and hope, in the perpetual search for connection that defines our humanity.

  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Part One: Family
    • The Key to the House
    • Learning English with Shotaro
    • El Beso
    • A Sephardi Air
    • The Book
    • The Day I Cried at Starbucks on Lincoln Road
    • A Tango for Gabriel
    • A Degree in Hard Work
    • La Silla
  • Part Two: The Kindness of Strangers
    • From Those Who Don’t Forget You
    • A Gift from the Women of Mexquitic
    • The First World Summit of Behars
    • Unexpected Happiness in Poland
  • Part Three: Cuban Goodbyes
    • The Freedom to Travel Anywhere in the World
    • Cristy Always Prays for My Safe Return
    • An Old Little Girl
  • Acknowledgments

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