Rebecca Mead – Ways With Words Dartington

Rebecca Mead – A Memoir of Departure and Return

In the summer of 2018, New Yorker writer, Rebecca Mead, returned to the place she was born: London. Fleeing both the political situation in America and seeking to expose her son to a wider world, the move raised poignant questions about place. What does it mean to leave the place you have adopted as home and country? And what is the value and cost of uprooting yourself?