Finding Motherland (ePub)

In Finding Motherland, acclaimed nonfiction author Helen Thorpe shares seven essays on the related themes of family, food, and migration. Thorpe is an Irish-American journalist and the author of four books. She was born in London to Irish parents, grew up in United States, and carried a green card until she was 21, when she became a naturalized citizen of the US. She was formerly a staff writer with The New York Observer, an in-house contributor to the "Talk of the Town" section at The New Yorker, and a member of the writing team at Texas Monthly. She has written freelance magazine stories for many other publications, including BuzzFeed, The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Westword, and 5280.

She has written three earlier books of narrative nonfiction: Just Like Us, Soldier Girls, and The Newcomers. Just Like Us was named one of the best books of 2009 by the Washington Post. Soldier Girls was named the best nonfiction book of 2014 by Time Magazine. The Newcomers was described by The New York Times as "a delicate and heartbreaking mystery story" about 22 immigrant and refugee teenagers who share one classroom while learning English together. That newspaper went on to say, "Thorpe's book is a reminder that in an era of nativism, some Americans are still breaking down walls and nurturing newcomers, the seeds of the great American experiment."

Thorpe earned her bachelor's degree at Princeton University and a master's degree at Columbia University. She is a member of the faculty at Lighthouse Writers Workshop, and a member of the adjunct faculty at Regis University's Mile High MFA program. She has also served as a visiting professor in the journalism program at Colorado College. She lives in Denver, Colorado.

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