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When Baker received a MakeWork grant to write about Chattanooga's unheard voices, she had no idea that her project would take her from the homes of Chattanooga's refugees in Landings to what Critical Flame calls a Sebaldian travelogue through the Syrian migration route in Reverse Migration. From her childhood home near Ferguson, Missouri, to her travels as an expatriate living in Asia, to the troubled cities of Eastern Europe, Baker explores the physical and emotional wanderings of what Mary McCarthy calls exiles, expatriates, and internal emigres.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Adventures of a Fake Immigrant and Schemers examines her ambivalent complicity in Chattanooga's rapid gentrification and the erasure of its historically black neighborhoods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Using photos, literature, and her own family's slave-owning history, Baker excavates her own past as well as Chattanooga's to try and understand the ghosts that haunt her and the city she inhabits. With a poignancy that is particularly relevant for these times, the voices in this collection echo through the text and shine brightly through the dark.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394898235665,"sku":"CIN1936196573G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52479407227153,"sku":"NLS9781936196579","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1936196573.jpg?v=1751347951"},{"product_id":"apparitions-book-sybil-baker-9781915531025","title":"Apparitions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eQanats are ubiquitous, yet unseen, and\u0026gt;\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ea clever way to create streams\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e where none exist in nature.\u003c\/b\u003e For 3,000 years, they have made life possible in impossible places and still sustain life and livelihoods in many countries today. After 30 years of field research, Dale Lightfoot provides the first comprehensive study of the qanat and sheds new light on their unique locations and distribution, their origins and history, their ecology, current status and use. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eQanats are remarkably engineered underground aqueducts, using gravity to bring water to villages and towns where reliable flowing surface water is scarce or absent. Although an ancient technology, more than 46,000 of them still flow around the world today, with their sustainable nature making them a focus of renewed interest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRichly illustrated with images and a series of original maps, this is the most complete record to date of the locations and distribution of qanats worldwide, including examples from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, Central Asia, China, India, Mexico and South America.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51060428439825,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51060431126801,"sku":"NIN9781915531025","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1915531020.jpg?v=1751124732"},{"product_id":"into-this-world-book-sybil-baker-9781938126017","title":"Into This World","description":"The answering machine picked up after the fourth ring. Are you my father? On the day Allison Morehouse walks off her job, her sister Mina calls from Korea, frantic and in tears. Determined to discover the truth about her adopted sister, Allison flies to Seoul, yet Mina-and Korea-are nothing like Allison imagines. Over the next three months, Allison and Mina will unearth thirty years of family secrets-and Allison will discover in Mina the sister she never embraced and in herself, the stronger woman she can be. This story of sisterhood, betrayal, and a tangled history of love and deception will carry you halfway around the world and deep into the hearts of two sisters whose fates were shaped by a long-lost love and the lies it spawned... and the history of a country and a man they never understood. Sybil Baker is a startlingly good writer. The big cities and small villages of Korea feel alive on every page. And if you think there's nothing fresh to say about the fragility of family bonds, read Into This World. Only in the best-told stories, like this one, may we measure and forgive one another, and ourselves. -Nance Van Winckel, author of No Starling. Vivid writing compels us to make this journey through the streets and temples of Seoul. Baker's fresh and graceful plotting fuels the reader's hunger to know what will happen next to these sisters in a family and a country torn apart by the past. -Jane Bradley, author of You Believers A story of one family's secret history glimpsed through the eyes of two estranged sisters; Allison, a troubled woman still grieving the loss of her unborn child, and Mina, a half-Korean expatriate in search of her shadowy past. Beautifully told, Sybil Baker weaves a lush, finely wrought tale of two daughters in search of love, two sisters in search of forgiveness in the middle of a foreign land. -Cathy Holton, author of Summer in the South","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52486473908497,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52486474989841,"sku":"NLS9781938126017","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781938126017.jpg?v=1759859309"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-sybil-baker.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}