Literary Memoir
Unterwegs um anzukommen
On the Way to Arrive
The manuscript is in German — 82,000 words.
An English edition will follow.
An English edition will follow.
Just go. That was the plan. Half the world later, I had begun to understand what I had been looking for.
I met people who became mirrors. I asked questions for which there were no ready answers. And I learned that arriving is not a place.
Before telling of this journey, I write about the life that came before — one that had known much violence and little notice.
A memoir that glosses nothing. It took me years to stop accusing. And in the end, I came to rest.
One day I crossed out the comma in the title of the book. Arriving was no longer a distant goal — it had become a state of mind.
From the manuscript