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No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement
No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement
No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement
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In recounting her life's journey from Romania to the United States, Vlasopolos writes movingly of the peculiar attributes of displacement in the contemporary world. Vlasopolos renders a loving portrait of her mother, an Auschwitz survivor courageously raising a young girl alone after the death of her husband, a political dissident, and finally, details their years of limbo in Brussels and Paris and settlement in Detroit, Michigan.

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Release dateJan 22, 2005
ISBN9780231500449
No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement
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Anca Vlasopolos

Anca Vlasopolos published the award-winning novel The New Bedford Samurai (2007); the award-winning memoir No Return Address: A Memoir of Displacement (2000); three collections of poems, Cartographies of Scale (and Wing) (2015); Walking Toward Solstice (2012); and Penguins in a Warming World (2007); three poetry chapbooks, a detective novel, Missing Members, and over two hundred poems and short stories in literary magazines in print and online.

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