Dilemmas of the diaspora

摘要

"You're not a Latvian!" the young student told me. I couldn't believe he'd said that. I was born in Latvia, own a farm and land there, worked for the Latvian Investment and Development Agency, spoke Latvian fluently, and my father was chief of the Latvian service of the Voice of America. Even one of my books was translated into Latvian. I also gave two of my daughters Latvian names. Ouch.