Green Card & Other Essays - Greaney, Áine
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In Green Card and Other Essays, Áine Greaney invites her readers to follow her three-decades' long journey from Irish citizen and resident to new immigrant and green card holder to dual citizenship that now includes naturalized U.S. citizenship. These first-person essays offer an intimate perspective on the challenges-fear, displacement, assimilation and dueling identities-faced by many immigrants from all countries. They explore what inspires us to commit to a new country-and what holds us back. As a collection, Green Card exemplifies the power of storytelling to build bridges of understanding and a deeper joy in our shared humanity.…mehr

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In Green Card and Other Essays, Áine Greaney invites her readers to follow her three-decades' long journey from Irish citizen and resident to new immigrant and green card holder to dual citizenship that now includes naturalized U.S. citizenship. These first-person essays offer an intimate perspective on the challenges-fear, displacement, assimilation and dueling identities-faced by many immigrants from all countries. They explore what inspires us to commit to a new country-and what holds us back. As a collection, Green Card exemplifies the power of storytelling to build bridges of understanding and a deeper joy in our shared humanity.
Autorenporträt
Áine Greaney is the author of two novels, Dance Lessons and The Big House, a collection of short stories, The Sheepbreeders Dance, and an instructional guide, Writer with a Day Job. Her essays and articles have appeared in Creative Nonfiction, NPR/WBUR, The Boston Globe Magazine, Salon, The Drum, New Hibernia Review, and Litro Magazine. Educated in Dublin, Ireland and Albany, New York, she has been a U.S. resident for thirty-two years and a naturalized U.S. citizen for two-and counting. Greaney lives and works in the Boston area.