Every Wrong Direction: An Emigre's Memoir - Inspiring Immigration Story & Life Journey | Perfect for Book Clubs, History Enthusiasts & Personal Growth Readers

Author: Burt, Dan

Memoirs

Published on 27 October 2022 by CARCANET PRESS LTD (Lives and Letters) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 358 pages
366 x 163 x 33 | 436g

Every Wrong Direction recreates and dissects the bitter education of Dan Burt, an American emigre who never found a home in America. It begins in the row homes of Jewish immigrants and working-class Italians on the mean streets of 1950s South Philadelphia. Every Wrong Direction follows the author from the rough, working-class childhood that groomed him to be a butcher or charter boat captain, through America, Britain, and Saudi Arabia as student, lawyer, spy, culture warrior, and expatriate, ending with a photo of his college rooms at St John's College, Cambridge. Between this beginning and end, through a Philadelphia commuter college, to Cambridge, then Yale Law School, across the working to upper classes, three countries, and seven cities over forty three years, it maps his pursuit of, realisation, disillusionment with, and abandonment of America and the American Dream.