When Baker received a MakeWork grant to write about Chattanooga's unheard voices, Sybil Baker had no idea that her project would take her from the homes of Chattanooga's refugees in -Landings- to what Critical Flame calls a -Sebaldian travelogue through the Syrian migration route- in -Reverse Migration.- From her childhood home near Ferguson, Missouri, to her travels as an expatriate living in Asia, to the troubled cities of Eastern Europe, Baker explores the physical and emotional wanderings of what Mary McCarthy calls -exiles, expatriates, and internal emigres.-
-Adventures of a...
When Baker received a MakeWork grant to write about Chattanooga's unheard voices, Sybil Baker had no idea that her project would take her from the ...