Liberian Literary Magazine Promoting Liberian literature, Arts and Culture
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A book that impressed me because of the story is A Long Way Home by Saroo Bierdsley. An Indian child adopted to Australia, who remembered his village and home and, as an adult, after years of research and thanks to Google Earth and FaceBook managed to return to the house in which he lived and find his mother, still living there. It was fascinating to see how intelligent little 5 year-old Saroo was and how he had ingrained his home and village in his memory. But above all I found his enduring connection to the mother who gave him life. I was also touched by the selfless love of the supportive white adoptive parents.
11) Have you read book [ s ] by [ a ] Liberian author [ s ] or about Liberia?
My paternal grandmother’ s name was Liberia. So I have read about some of the history of the interesting creation of the country. My grandmother was born sometime in the late 1800s on the Caribbean coast of Guatemala( where I was born).
I have not read Liberian authors, but have ordered books by writers I am seeing in Kwee. I very much look forward to receiving them and starting to read …
Author bio:
Catana Tully grew up trilingual in Guatemala where she attended elementary and middle school. In tenth grade she entered a boarding school in Jamaica, WI and received her Advanced Level Higher Schools Certificate from Cambridge University, England.
Expecting to become an international interpreter, her studies continued at the Sprachen und Dolmetscher Institut in Munich, Germany. However, after answering a call to work in a play, she discovered her affinity for the dramatic arts. As the actress and fashion model Catana Cayetano she appeared in Film and Television work in Germany, Austria, and Italy.
She met and married the American actor Frederick V. Tully and ultimately moved to the United States. They have a son, Patrick. In Upstate New York, she completed the BA in Cultural Studies at SUNY,
Empire State College; obtained a MA in Latin American and Caribbean Literature, and a DA( Doctor of Arts) in Humanistic Studies, from SUNY, Albany.
In 2003, personal reasons required she retire from her tenured position as Associate Professor at SUNY Empire State College, only to return for part time work in 2005 at ESC’ s Center for International Programs. There she served as Mentor and instructor in the Lebanon Program and as Interim Program Director for the Dominican Republic.
Wishing to dedicate herself completely to publishing her book, she retired entirely in 2011. Split at the Root: A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity was published in the fall of 2012. Her German version of the book is ready for publication later in 2016.
Catana Tully
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