Author
Soyer; Michaela
Year
2024
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Pages
23
ISBN
978-0-52039-426-1
Last Update
02-Nov-2024
Keywords
Criminology & Criminal Justice ; Law ; Sociology
Around Christmas 2021, I had the first conversation in more than two decades with my aunt. My father’s younger sister had left southern Germany with her GI husband to move to Texas sixty years ago. At seventy-seven she was suffering from the early stages of dementia. As she was beginning to lose her shortterm memory, she sought to reconnect with her German roots. When I spoke to her on the phone, she told me that she wished she could go back to Germany: “When I was young,” she said, “I didn’t know that America was that far away.”
I cannot...
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