Living in the transit lounge / Pico Iyer -- SECTION I: ENRICHMENT: Rain light / Sara Mansfield Taber -- A Minnesota girl in the Holy Land / Kathleen Anderson -- Snakes and angels / Eileen Drew -- Arabian nights / Isabel Allende -- SECTION II: ESTRANGEMENT: A string of beads / Camilla Trinchieri -- Undiscovered nation / Pat Conroy -- Outside looking in / Mary Edwards Wertsch -- Embers / Faith Eidse -- Letters never sent / Ruth Van Reken -- Diving in / Nancy Henderson-James -- SECTION III: ROOTLESSNESS: Going home / Nina Sichel -- To see and see again / Tara Bahrampour -- Breath roots / Anora Egan -- Memories of unhousement / Clark Blaise -- SECTION IV: IDENTITY: Displacements / Peter Ruppert -- Beyond silence / Lisa Suhair Majaj -- A bilingual journey / Ariel Dorfman -- How I started to write / Carlos Fuentes -- American China / Marie Arana.
