Coquitlam Public Library

Alien citizen, an Earth odyssey

eng

videorecording

NRT

Alien citizen

electronic resource

90

an Earth odyssey

Elizabeth Liang is a Cross-Cultural Kid (CCK). A CCK is a person who has lived in-or meaningfully interacted with-two or more cultural environments for a significant period of time during developmental years. Liang weaves humorous and moving stories about growing up abroad with American commercial jingles providing her soundtrack through language confusion, first love, culture shock, Clark Gable, and sandstorms... Our protagonist deals with the decisions every global nomad has to make repeatedly: to adapt or to simply cope; to build a bridge or to just tolerate. From being a Guatemalan-American teen in North Africa to attending a women's college in the USA, Alien Citizen reflects her experience that neither one was necessarily easier than the other. She realizes that girls across the world are growing into womanhood in environments that can be hostile to females (including the USA). How does a young girl cope as a border/culture/language/religion straddler in country after country that feels "other" to her when she is the "other?" Where is the line between respecting others and betraying yourself? Humor is a great survival mechanism. And friends make all the difference

adult

live action