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Catching the travel bug at age twenty, Terry Repak longed to live overseas someday. She didn’t foresee spending fifteen years in countries like Ivory Coast, Tanzania, and Switzerland; nor did she guess that living abroad would transform her and her family into global citizens and gift them with resilience, perspective, and a profound sense of home.
“Terry Repak writes about her family’s experiences as American expats in very personal ways, without being afraid of sharing some of the unvarnished realities. With candor and humility, she demonstrates how living overseas can be a rich and fulfilling experience. For Americans, she shows the value of opening ourselves to global perspectives and viewing the rest of the world differently while being more analytical of our own actions. Thank you for this warm, insightful contribution to global understanding and particularly to a more textured understanding of the beauty and the complexities of Africa.”
Terry A. Repak studied journalism in college and worked as a reporter for a few years before returning to graduate school. She earned a master’s degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD at Emory University. She and her partner lived in East and West Africa as well as in Europe, where he worked in the AIDS field and Terry wrote and raised their children. She has authored two other non-fiction books, numerous travel articles for newspapers and magazines, and her research has been published in academic journals. She lives in Seattle where she continues to write, to teach English to foreign language learners (ELL) and to garden, hike, and swim.
“Terry Repak writes about her family’s experiences as American expats in very personal ways, without being afraid of sharing some of the unvarnished realities. With candor and humility, she demonstrates how living overseas can be a rich and fulfilling experience. For Americans, she shows the value of opening ourselves to global perspectives and viewing the rest of the world differently while being more analytical of our own actions. Thank you for this warm, insightful contribution to global understanding and particularly to a more textured understanding of the beauty and the complexities of Africa.”
—Dr. Helene Gayle, President of Spelman College, former President and CEO of CARE, and former Director of the Centers for Disease Control’s National Center (NCHSTP)
“Anyone contemplating living abroad for either her own or a spouse’s career will find Terry Repak’s memoir about her family’s long stints in two African nations and in Europe invaluable. While offering lots of practical advice, Terry shines in contemplating both the difficulties and the lasting enrichment she, her husband and children experienced.”
—Elizabeth Nelson Brown, author of Playing Boticelli
Terry A. Repak studied journalism in college and worked as a reporter for a few years before returning to graduate school. She earned a master’s degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD at Emory University. She and her partner lived in East and West Africa as well as in Europe, where he worked in the AIDS field and Terry wrote and raised their children. She has authored two other non-fiction books, numerous travel articles for newspapers and magazines, and her research has been published in academic journals. She lives in Seattle where she continues to write, to teach English to foreign language learners (ELL) and to garden, hike, and swim.