{"product_id":"deeper-than-african-soil-an-honest-recollection-of-growing-up-as-a-missionary-third-culture-kid","title":"Deeper Than African Soil: An Honest Recollection of Growing Up as a Missionary \"Third Culture Kid\"","description":"\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--\n@page { margin: 0.79in }\n\t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in }\n--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#222222\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eDeeper than African Soil\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#222222\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003e captures the romantic, pores-open wonder of a child raised among worlds. It unveils the adventure and suffering of revolution, disease, boarding school trauma, wrenching farewells and losses deeper than most people endure in a lifetime. It explores the nature of memory itself, why we repress it and how to call it forth, all five senses open. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003eDaughter of Canadian Mennonites, Faith Eidse was separated from family at the scariest moments of her life. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003eAmid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003e postcolonial tensions in Congo, Canada and the U.S., Faith and her sisters—Hope, Charity and Grace—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#222222\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003elived vivid lives, bridging cultures from their home (Dutch Mennonite) to their host villages in southern Manitoba, the American Midwest and southwestern Congo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003eYet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003ehome was always changing—sometimes drastically.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003e Faith seldom felt she truly belonged to the places they lived.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003eIn the United States, Faith was an immigrant. In her parents’ passport country, Canada, she was a visitor. In Congo, she claimed friendship, longing and memories\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#222222\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003eShe related to all cultures yet owned none, formed identity from bits of home (first culture) and host (second or third) cultures to create a unique third culture. “Third culture kids” each have their own enriched, complicated story but \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003eshare a diaspora of the heart and longing for home. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003e(352pp. illus. Masthof Press, 2023.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\" face=\"Times New Roman, serif\"\u003eContains adult themes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faith Eidse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43864932417764,"sku":"4490-2F2-24","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/3371\/products\/frt_84f53c26-3a40-46be-8c70-82fdefc56264.jpg?v=1679940985","url":"https:\/\/bookstore.masthof.com\/products\/deeper-than-african-soil-an-honest-recollection-of-growing-up-as-a-missionary-third-culture-kid","provider":"Masthof Bookstore and Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}