Unraveling Identity and Home: Kathryn Nuernberger’s ‘Held’ Challenges What It Means to Belong
Held is a smart book, intermingling facts with personal narrative, yet Nuernberger remains humble in her reflections. It is an attempt to make sense of the world as she travels with her family from the Arctic Circle to Hawaii, with many stops in-between.
“I collect a lot of facts because I think they might fit each other and also maybe me to the universe, but my poor dumb brain just can’t come up with how.[…] I collect a lot of facts because when I see you and you ask me how things are, I can tell you what I have been learning as a way of confessing the parts I don’t otherwise know how to say.”
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