Paper Airplanes in the Himalayas: The Unfinished Path Home (West and the Wider World)
by Paul Asbury Seaman
Category: Religion

Paul Seaman was a man without a country. The son of United Methodist missionaries, he grew up in Pakistan at a boarding school for missionaries' children. This unusual memoire revisits the ten years he spent at Murree Christian School, where he was separated from his parents for six months of each year, then reflects on the legacy of such an upbringing. Like many "global nomads," Seaman continued to struggle with a lost sense of belonging even twenty years after returning to the United States. Paper Airplanes in the Himalayas revisits a childhood at the crossroads of several worlds, and follows the author's unfolding journey to rediscover a sense of home. In an age of cultural disorientation, this absorbing memoir resonates with both urgency and comfort