Immersion:A Linguist’s Memoir

by: Linda Murphy Marshall (Author)

Publisher: She Writes Press

Publication Date: 2024/9/24

Language: English

Print Length: 264 pages

ISBN-10: 1647427207

ISBN-13: 9781647427207

Book Description

Fans of the self-discovering joueys in Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Andrew McCarthy’s The Longest Way Home will love diving into linguist Linda Murphy Marshall’s adventure-filled inteational jouey as she overcomes her past to find her place in the world—all over the world.Immersion is a memoir that takes the reader on a captivating emotional and physical jouey through Linda Murphy Marshall’s life:from the longstanding, crippling impact of family members’ low expectations and abuse, to her discovery as a young adult that she possesses special skills in foreign languages. Linda is taught from an early age that she has little of value to offer the world. But her love of and affinity for languages enables her to create a new life—to separate herself from her toxic environment and to build a successful, decades-long career as a professional multilinguist. It’s a rewarding vocation, but a challenging one:her assignments with the US federal govement take her on some hair-raisingly dangerous joueys, some to countries with unstable govements and even active war zones. But these sometimes-harrowing experiences teach her how to open the “windows” around her, unearth her true self, and develop a healthy sense of self-worth—and ultimately, paradoxically, her work and travel so far from home allow her to come home to herself.

About the Author

Fans of the self-discovering joueys in Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Andrew McCarthy’s The Longest Way Home will love diving into linguist Linda Murphy Marshall’s adventure-filled inteational jouey as she overcomes her past to find her place in the world—all over the world.Immersion is a memoir that takes the reader on a captivating emotional and physical jouey through Linda Murphy Marshall’s life:from the longstanding, crippling impact of family members’ low expectations and abuse, to her discovery as a young adult that she possesses special skills in foreign languages. Linda is taught from an early age that she has little of value to offer the world. But her love of and affinity for languages enables her to create a new life—to separate herself from her toxic environment and to build a successful, decades-long career as a professional multilinguist. It’s a rewarding vocation, but a challenging one:her assignments with the US federal govement take her on some hair-raisingly dangerous joueys, some to countries with unstable govements and even active war zones. But these sometimes-harrowing experiences teach her how to open the “windows” around her, unearth her true self, and develop a healthy sense of self-worth—and ultimately, paradoxically, her work and travel so far from home allow her to come home to herself.

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