Expatriate Stories

we are the ones that always leave.

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This is an article written by an American expat living in Marrakech, Morocco

The title of my book, "Follow in the Tigerman's Footsteps," sub- titled "The Adventurous Life of an Expat," comes from my love of tigers that like me love to roam far and wide. It reads more like an adventure story than a memoir and covers a working life most only dream about. I started to write my memoir, as a way of showing my two daughters and grand children what kind of life I enjoyed. However, the more I wrote; I decided it would make an interesting read for others. As a qualified joiner/shopfitter, I worked on fitting out shops, banks and offices all over England, as well as a few projects in Scotland. As a Sagittarian I have travel in my blood, but never in my wildest dreams did I think I would end up experiencing travel and working in so many different countries. Readers will see that there is more to life than a boring 9-5 job, with the whole world waiting for you to experience life in a country other than your own.

A humorous novel of what happens when a Hollywood television writer goes to Budapest to revive his career and finds that backstabbing is as prevalent as in Tinsel Town.

Express herself to feel free on the world.

A collection of poems by an Australian living away from his home country. It touches on my feelings after being away from my home country for many years

Here to record the moments when the darkness overtakes the hopes, and how a person is reborn from these.

Celia Belmonte, a 16-year-old from Barcelona finds herself in a small-town Virginia highschool. Between struggling with her feelings of the move and navigating American life, she finds herself in a corner of her precalculus class scribbling on the desk, communicating with a stranger between classes. As Celia starts to establish a new life, she is torn between her feelings for her new friend and the writing of the stranger in math class.

An expatriate muses on his decades in Brazil as he waits for professionals to clean up a special mess for him. Originally produced as part of the Boundoff literary podcast, 2008.

Follow the dangerous true life events of a Texas Expatriate.

Rebecca Chandler is a serial American expat who is forced to move home to Los Angeles after things go wrong during the COVID pandemic. Rebecca returns to America immediately immersed in "reverse culture shock" and feeling a bit overwhelmed by the challenges that come with "learning how to America, again". After living in Egypt, Kenya and Singapore, Rebecca doesn't feel "entirely American" anymore and is confused by massive grocery stores, driving on the right, losing the metric system, the coffee culture, and other daily challenges.. America 101 is a lighthearted perspective into one American's attempt to repatriate and learn how to become relevant.

Meet Vijay, your regular sort of quiet guy, who left home after school and stepped across the ocean to do his undergrad in Singapore. After three years of being just him, he met Deepa, and suddenly he was one part of Vipa or Deejay. He preferred Deejay, but most people just called him Vijay. Deepa, strong, confident, and totally focussed, is enchanted by having a senior for a boyfriend. Less drama, she felt, and lot more information to get ahead during college. At the end of four years of peace, romance and friendship, they were ready to be married. How do they manage the new environment of being married to each other's families? How do they transition from being footloose and fancy free to being responsible for each other? Do they grow together or do they find arguments where none existed before?