Wanderlust

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Summary: A Journey I Enjoyed Taking
Review: Through first-person accounts, poems, and pictures, Wanderlust offers a journey across two continents and several generations. It tells the story of a German family that became separated when some of its members chose to make lives for themselves in America. What follows is a study of the ongoing relationship between the German-Americans and their cousins who remained in Europe. This book also offers an intimate look at life in Germany during the 1940s and the challenges facing immigrants to America in the following decades. The contributors to Wanderlust create a book that is at once historical and contemporary, American and German, young and old.
On one level, this is a personal story of individuals striving to stay in touch with their roots and each other. On another level, it holds wider appeal to a nation of immigrants who can identify with this family's experiences. Either way, Wanderlust carries the reader away.