Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life (American Lives)

Ohlmann, Suzanne

ISBN 10: 1496226860 / ISBN 13: 9781496226860

Published by University of Nebraska Press, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life (American Lives)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1496226860
• ISBN 13: 9781496226860
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

With her feet firmly rooted on the plains of Nebraska, Suzanne Ohlmann launches the reader into flight over miles and decades of migration: from an apple-pie childhood in America’s Fourth of July City to the dirt floors of a cowshed in rural India, we zigzag across time and geography to see the world through Ohlmann’s eyes and to discover with her the pain she’d been avoiding through her boomerang travels away from her native home.

Through incarnations as a musician, arts manager, and registered nurse, Ohlmann finally lands in Texas, buys a house, and gets a dog. But her house is haunted, and so is she. In the dark solitude of Ohlmann’s basement the vision of a dead child presents her with a harrowing choice: she can go home to Nebraska and seek the truth of her biological past, or, like the boy, surrender to the depths of her own darkness. With honesty, compassion, and a sense of humor, Ohlmann recounts her tenacious search into the shadows of her life.
 

About the Author

Suzanne Ohlmann is a registered nurse. A native Nebraskan, she currently lives in San Antonio with her husband and a quintet of dogs and cats. Her work has been published by the Associated Press, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, Longreads, and Texas Monthly.