I'm hoping that the diaspora/expat angle resonates with people from a lot of different angles. I have to use my imagination (and rely on finding some good beta-readers) to get the "second generation" parts of it to feel right, and of course in a European setting (and especially a historic one) there's a much stronger sense of "it doesn't matter how long your family's been here, you will never be one of us" to deal with.
I imagine that Gwen will grow up with a sense of being a "world citizen" but I wouldn't be at all surprised if at some point she expresses a wish to have been given the opportunity to have true roots somewhere. (Heck, I always felt the lack of having an "ancestral home", given that I'd lived in three different states by the time I was 5 years old. But I suspect that for many Americans that reaction is diluted by the historic reality that however long our ancestors have been on this continent, it's still just an eye-blink of history.)
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Date: 2014-09-05 03:38 pm (UTC)I imagine that Gwen will grow up with a sense of being a "world citizen" but I wouldn't be at all surprised if at some point she expresses a wish to have been given the opportunity to have true roots somewhere. (Heck, I always felt the lack of having an "ancestral home", given that I'd lived in three different states by the time I was 5 years old. But I suspect that for many Americans that reaction is diluted by the historic reality that however long our ancestors have been on this continent, it's still just an eye-blink of history.)