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The Last Train From Djibouti: Africa Beckons Me, But America is My Home

The Last Train From Djibouti: Africa Beckons Me, But America is My Home

Lee, Otis L., Jr.

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Biographies GeneralBlack American History

ISBN10: 1633938344
ISBN13: 9781633938342
Publisher: Fitzgerald Company Press
Published: Jul 31 2019
Pages: 308
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The Last Train from Djibouti is an odyssey you will not forget. --Larry Bechtel, author of The Tinsmith's Apprentice and sculptor

Otis Lee begins this story in the most innocuous of locations: a train from Charlottesville, Virginia, to Penn Station in New York City. But for Otis this journey brings to mind another train, from long ago and far away--representative of a past to which there can be no return. Based on the true experiences of Dr. Michelle Palmer Lee and her mentor, Dr. Harriett F. Karuhije, The Last Train From Djibouti follows two women on a life-changing adventure as they travel separately to the Motherland, determined to find Africa and themselves. What they find is nothing like what they expected. As these two women grapple with questions of identity and character, what emerges is a larger picture of what it means to undertake an unrequited return. Weaving entries from Michelle's journal and Harriett's observations together with his own research and experience, Otis depicts a microcosm of the African-American struggle to find roots in a culture that has been upended, shipped overseas, and become something new.

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