Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland
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- ISBN 9781496839206
- Weight: 584g
- Dimensions: 162 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 30 Mar 2022
- Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Erik Smalhout was born a child of privilege in the Netherlands East Indies. Smalhout’s father sent his unruly son to a boarding school in Australia, just months before the Japanese seized the Netherlands East Indies in early 1942. While young Smalhout adapted to life in rural Australia, his sister and father back home were placed in Japanese prison camps, an experience that proved fateful for his father and changed his sister’s life forever. Serendipity followed him through induction in the WWII Dutch military, his postwar service on merchant ships circling the globe, and eventually to the most southern place on earth: the Mississippi Delta.
Smalhout spent the rest of his life adapting to challenging circumstances time after time: first as a progressive Dutchman in the American South, then as an IRS agent in the nation’s second-largest financial center, and finally as a man who, due to a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, often could not identify himself. Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland: Searching for Home is Smalhout’s memoir; edited by his granddaughter, Erika Berry; and supported with pictures and documents that he saved throughout his lifetime. Smalhout’s story reminds readers that place is secondary to experience and that no matter where we are or what fortunate or unfortunate circumstances placed us there, an eternal curiosity for humanity will help us find a place in the world.
Smalhout spent the rest of his life adapting to challenging circumstances time after time: first as a progressive Dutchman in the American South, then as an IRS agent in the nation’s second-largest financial center, and finally as a man who, due to a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s, often could not identify himself. Motherland, Fatherland, Whateverland: Searching for Home is Smalhout’s memoir; edited by his granddaughter, Erika Berry; and supported with pictures and documents that he saved throughout his lifetime. Smalhout’s story reminds readers that place is secondary to experience and that no matter where we are or what fortunate or unfortunate circumstances placed us there, an eternal curiosity for humanity will help us find a place in the world.
Erik Smalhout (1926–2008) was born in Batavia, Indonesia. He was educated in Perth, Australia, and served during World War II as a librarian in the intelligence service of the 18th squadron of the Netherlands Air Force before traveling the globe as a purser with the Royal Rotterdam Lloyd Steamship Corporation. He moved to Leland, Mississippi in 1949 and was an employee of the Internal Revenue Service in Charlotte, North Carolina for thirty-one years.
Erika Berry began her career in public education as a middle-grades math teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has since worked in education policy with various state agencies and nonprofits throughout Mississippi, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
Erika Berry began her career in public education as a middle-grades math teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. She has since worked in education policy with various state agencies and nonprofits throughout Mississippi, Tennessee, and North Carolina.
