When home is 'always another country'

For children for whom "home" means the family unit rather than a particular location, leaving is not necessarily marked by physical movement

Always Another Country :  A Memoir of Exile and Home

Sisonke Msimang  

World Editions

365 pages; $16.99

In 2005, the novelist Taiye Selasi published an essay in the now defunct LIP magazine defining a generation of young Africans whose roots spanned the world. “‘Home’ for this lot is many things: Where their parents are from; where they go for vacation; where they went to school; where they see old friends; where they live (or live this year),” Ms Selasi wrote. “Like so many African young people working and living in cities around the globe, they belong to no single geography, but feel at home