Lost In Canada: An Immigrant's Second Thoughts

In the past five years, Canada started to change: the open, optimistic country to which culture writer Lydia Perovic immigrated in the late 1990s was becoming inward-looking, unwilling to be a nation and a culture, illiberal in speech and imagination. Perovic noticed that Canadian arts journalism and criticism began to disappear as well, turning away colleagues who took their expertise in topics like literature or opera down to the United States - or to real estate journalism. Then Perovic lost her mother, and she found herself at a crossroads, questioning all of her life choices. Is she really a Canadian? Is the Canadian project a lost cause? What is a life without national culture? Why is it so hard to find oneself an orphan even in middle age? In the company of Janet Ajzenstat, Charles Taylor, Northrop Frye, and Alice Munro, Perovic explores if it's possible to feel at home anywhere. She considers the difficulty of building lasting friendships and leading a meaningful life in an era of precarity, ethnocentrism, and American tech and media hegemony. Lost in Canada is the account of an immigrant's second thoughts about her second home and a call for all Canadians to think about the future of their country's culture.

• | Author: Lydia Perovic
• | Publisher: Sutherland House
• | Publication Date: Apr 30, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 216 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1989555578
• | ISBN-13: 9781989555576