Four Questions on Farsickness: Lulah Ellender
“Brook Farm is the place that most has my heart. When we had to leave I felt utterly bereft and the house haunted me throughout my life: I would dream that somehow I would win it back…”
Read MoreMegan Harlan is the author of Mobile Home: A Memoir in Essays (University of Georgia Press, 2020), winner of the AWP Creative Nonfiction Prize, and Mapmaking, awarded the John Ciardi Poetry Prize. Her writing has been cited as distinguished four times in Best American Essays and published in AGNI, The New York Times, Crazyhorse, Hotel Amerika, River Teeth, Los Angeles Review, Colorado Review, Arts & Letters, and elsewhere. She edits Farsickness Journal and writes The France House. For more, visit meganharlan.com.
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“Brook Farm is the place that most has my heart. When we had to leave I felt utterly bereft and the house haunted me throughout my life: I would dream that somehow I would win it back…”
Read MoreSeveral years back, I made my way through Notre-Dame de Paris, awed by the unreal magnitude and sheer kaleidoscopic grandeur of the interior.
Read More“I think being the child of an immigrant means that you’re hardwired with a sense of farsickness. There’s a longing for that other home, that other culture.”
Read More“A car could not only get you from one place to another, but actually take you from being one person to being another.”
Read More“For the past twenty years, I have gone every year to France, and after a very intense period of personal loss, I began to make pilgrimages to some of the sacred sites like Chartres Cathedral…”
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The word “farsickness” translates from fernweh (Ger.): a yearning for distant places.
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