Nowhere, Exactly
On Identity and Belonging
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Nowhere, Exactly
Narrated by:
Raoul Bhaneja
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Narrated by:
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Raoul Bhaneja
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M.G. Vassanji
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*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 J. W. DAFOE BOOK PRIZE
From one of Canada's most celebrated writers, two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji, comes a thoughtful meditation on what it means to belong in the world.
Home is never a single place, entirely and unequivocally. It is contingent. The abstract "nowhere," then, is the true home.
M.G. Vassanji has been exploring the immigrant experience for over three decades, drawing deeply on his own transnational upbringing and intimate understanding of the unique challenges and perspectives born from leaving one's home to resettle in a new land. The question of identity, of how to configure and see oneself within this new land, is one such challenge faced. But Vassanji suggests that a more fundamental and slippery endeavour than establishing one's identity is how, if ever, we can establish a sense of belonging. Can we ever truly belong in this new home? Did we ever truly belong in the home we left? Where exactly do we belong? For many, the answer is nowhere exactly.
Combining brilliant prose, thoughtful, candid observation, and a lifetime of exploring how we as individuals are shaped by the places and communities in which we live and the history that haunts them, Nowhere, Exactly examines with exquisite sensitivity the space between identity and belonging, the immigrant experience of both loss and gain, and the weight of memory and nostalgia, guilt and hope felt by so many of those who leave their homes in search of new ones.
Critic Reviews
Shortlisted for the Balsillie Prize for Public Policy
Longlisted for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize
"Nowhere, Exactly is a rich gift to Canadians—a thoughtful, meditative and nuanced exploration of identity. . . . In beautiful prose, Vassanji takes us back to first principles on mosaics and multiculturalism — on how people and place come together, forging the new from the old." —Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Jury
Longlisted for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize
"Nowhere, Exactly is a rich gift to Canadians—a thoughtful, meditative and nuanced exploration of identity. . . . In beautiful prose, Vassanji takes us back to first principles on mosaics and multiculturalism — on how people and place come together, forging the new from the old." —Balsillie Prize for Public Policy Jury
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