
Remembering ‘the old country’
“Back Where I Came From, Jaffer and Mouallem’s collection of essays by first- and second-generation Canadian and American writers, offers a view of many of those old countries, providing a smorgasbord of perceptions and images about culture and identity and about what home means to people in places around the planet.” Back Where I Came From: On Culture, Identity and Home by Taslim Jaffer and Omar Mouallem (eds.) (Toronto: Book*Hug Press, 2024) $29.95 / 9781771669177