Old Stories in a New Land

From the back cover: Bicycles...climbing trees...hiding places...wasps: These are parts of many people's childhood memories, not only for those of us raised in the United States, but all for people from all over the world. In this book, the publishers have gathered written collections of childhood experiences from places as far away and diverse as Mexico and Bangladesh. All of the people in this book have come to St. Louis to spend a part of their lives in a new place. In Old Stories in a New Land, they share their writing talents in essays which are amusing, poignant, sometimes sad, and above all, memorable.