Homesick (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Fritz
- First Published: 1982
- Time of Work: 1925–1927
- Setting: Hankow, Kuling, Wuchang, and Shanghai, China; San Francisco; the Ozark Mountains; and Washington, Pennsylvania
- Principal Characters: Jean Guttery, Arthur Guttery, Myrtle Guttery, Miriam Guttery, Lin Nai-Nai, Yang Sze-Fu, Andrea Hull, Ian Forbes, Isa Guttery, Donald Burch
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, United States or Americans, Authors or writers, Autobiography, Missions or missionaries, 1920’s, Multiculturalism, China or Chinese people
- Locales: San Francisco, CA, China, Ozark Mountains, Washington, PA
Form and Content
Jean Fritz’s Homesick: My Own Story follows the author’s experiences as the ten-year-old Jean Guttery, from her childhood in Hankow, China, to her arrival two years later in the place that her parents always referred to as “Washington, P.A.” Although largely episodic, each of the book’s seven chapters explores an aspect of Fritz’s growing sense of personal identity as she reviews her role within the family and her allegiances as an American abroad. As a first-person narrative, the story remains faithful to Fritz’s point of view as a young...
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