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Bacon’s “Home from Home” published as a book

February 28, 2019 By Susanne Bacon

Over the past years, many of you have been reading my column “Home from Home” in the Suburban Times. It sprang from all the questions an immigrant gets asked as a newcomer by citizens over here as well as an expat by people they left behind. And, of course, I couldn’t help comparing my mother country, Germany, subconsciously with my new home country, the United States, specifically Western Washington. Over time I wrote more than 70 articles, published each and every Friday, covering topics from Nature to food, holidays, and pastimes. Well, you might have read all of them. Or maybe some of them.

Just in time for the Year of German-American Friendship ion the US – Susanne Bacon’s Suburban Times column is available as a book now.

The response I received was quite surprising to me. As a matter of fact, it was absolutely gratifying. It turned out that a lot of memories were triggered by these articles, but also a lot of new questions came up. Some of you even asked whether I considered publishing a compendium. Which – are there coincidences?! – I really had started working on at that time. And as I had quite a few readers in my mother country as well, I thought that a German translation might be helpful for them as well. So, this is what kept me busy for the past few months. The result is a double-publication of my column that is available these days on Amazon and in book stores.

If you prefer to read the book in German, here’s the translation.

While I was working away on the German edition and slightly revised the English original, I came to know that 2019 celebrates the Year of German-American Friendship in the USA. If you want to know more about it, check out wunderbartogether.org, a cooperation of the Federal Foreign Office, Goethe Institut, and BDI (The Voice of German Industry). No, I’m not part of that program, but I find it quite encouraging that it happens when I’m just finished with my own German-American project.

German-American author Susanne Bacon is talking “Across the Fence” these days.

“Home from Home” (251 pages, $ 14.00; ISBN-10: 1796756318, ISBN-13: 978-1796756319) is available in German under the title „In der Fremde daheim“ (279 pages, $ 14.00; ISBN-10: 1796973874, ISBN-13: 978-1796973877). Both softcovers are also available as eBooks via Amazon. They might make some nice gifts either for yourselves, for anybody in the US longing to visit Germany or anybody German who might like to know specifically about the Western Washington region. And, of course, for anybody German-American. Easter is just around the corner …

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About Susanne Bacon

German-American journalist Susanne Bacon is also the author of the Wycliff novel series (available in local bookstores or on Amazon). The latest, published in 2020, is Suddenly Snow. Her Suburban Times column “Home from Home” is also available as a book now. Its German title is “In der Fremde daheim". She lives with her husband in Lakewood, Washington. You can contact her at Facebook. If you are interested in an express delivery of Susanne's columns, subscribe to her Bacon's Bits email, delivery free to your inbox. Click here to sign up.

Comments

  1. Jerri Ecclestone says

    March 1, 2019 at 6:54 am

    Congratulations! I lived in Germany for 12 years, but was born and raised here so I’ve really enjoyed reading your articles and comparing your experiences in both locations to my own. I love my home but I have to admit, I miss Germany sometimes. I still keep in touch with friends I made while there.

    Thank you for the memories!

    Jerri

  2. Susanne Bacon says

    March 1, 2019 at 7:25 am

    Thank you, Jerri! I’m glad you liked reading my articles, and I hope that you still find something entertaining in my new Friday column, “Across the Fence”, every once in a while. I can’t help it, but Germany will keep getting thrown in every once in a while …

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