Lost in Canada

An Immigrant's Second Thoughts

Lydia Perovic

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The Sutherland House Inc.
19 May 2022

Memoirs

In the late 1990s, culture writer Lydia Perovi immigrated from Montenegro to the open, optimistic country of Canada and threw herself into its vibrant artistic and cultural communities. She was happy with her decision until about five years ago, when Canada began to change. It turned inward, lost its will to be a nation and a culture, and grew increasingly illiberal in speech and imagination. At the same time, Perovi noticed that Canadian arts journalism and criticism began to disappear, leaving her colleagues to take their expertise in topics like literature and opera to the United States, or even to real estate journalism.

Just as she felt she was losing her country, Perovi lost her mother, and found herself at a crossroads, questioning all of her life choices. Is she really a Canadian? Is the Canadian project a lost cause? What is a life without a national culture? Why is it so difficult to find oneself an orphan in middle age?

In the company of Janet Ajzenstat, Charles Taylor, Northrop Frye, and Alice Munro, Perovi explores some of the most profound questions of our times. Is it possible to feel at home anywhere anymore? Are meaningful lives and lasting friendships the inevitable casualties of our precarious political environment, ethnocentrism, and global media platforms?

Lost in Canada is a shrewd and moving account of one immigrant's second thoughts about her second home, and a call for all Canadians to think harder about the future of their country and its culture.

By: Lydia Perovic
Imprint: The Sutherland House Inc.
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 215mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9781989555576
ISBN 10: 1989555578
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 19 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Lydia Perovic grew up in Montenegro in the former Yugoslavia, studied journalism in Belgrade, and moved to Canada in 1999. She has since worked in publishing, education, bookselling, and arts funding. Lydia is the author of two novels and she writes the Long Play newsletter on Substack.

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Lost in Canada

An Immigrant's Second Thoughts

Lydia Perovic

$44.95

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