Volunteering in schools, serving with the PTA, and attending Bible studies were all part of my journey.
I needed to build an authentic community to fill this gap here in the U.S. As an immigrant, I was far away from my family and friends. It took my family and me a long time to feel "settled" in America. I was always aware of my difference-for many, I might have been the first South Asian they had ever seen. Despite how fun and exciting this journey was, it was often very challenging. Like everyone who moves to a new country, I wanted to feel like I belonged. But the United States presented a number of cultural differences. In India, I knew how to live my everyday life. Living in the in-between is what I am called to do. Every time I feel like I don’t fit in, I am reminded that I belong to God's kingdom. It was never what I dreamt of, but it has taught me to consistently live in the in-between space and carry the tension of not-quite belonging. If you are unable to attend, you must call the book shop to order signed books.Since moving to the United States two decades ago, God has refined me, stripped me of expectations, and taught me to better trust Him.
Maria Semple discusses and signs her book, Today Will Be Different. This book is available in hardcover ($27.00). (It's true that it's Eleanor's fault: She did put makeup in Timby's Christmas stocking.) Just when it seems like things can't get any weirder or more in the way of Eleanor's personal transformation, a graphic memoir called The Flood Sisters surfaces, and the dramatic family story it tells reveals long-buried secrets and a younger sister to whom Eleanor never speaks. Eleanor's husband, Joe, is missing, and their son, Timby, is wearing eye shadow to school and getting into fashion battles on the playground that pull Eleanor away from the afternoon of poetry lessons and art-making she had planned for herself. Eleanor Flood is going to re-examine her life, clean up her act, get dressed, only change into yoga clothes for yoga, which today she will actually attend, and be a better version of herself-all in one day.īut then, as it always does, life happens.
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