“This is My Motherland, But it Seems Just Beyond my Grasp”
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 02.11.02 | 2:51 PM ET
After two years in Asia, Anne Marie Ruff returns to her childhood home in Minnesota and finds that the familiar seems more foreign than, say, Inner Mongolia. “Maybe by immersing myself in the strangeness of the world,” she says in an audio piece for public radio’s Savvy Traveler, “I will have made myself a stranger to my own country.”