ABSTRACT
In her essay, Menéndez considers how ceaseless movement has shaped her multiple selves, both in her fiction and in her life story. In her self-examination of her own journeys (and those of many other travelers, authors and free spirits before her), Menéndez discovers that her chosen preference for an uprooted life honors the legacies of her mother, grandmother, and especially her Lebanese great-grandmother. “Traveling with my selves,” as she terms it here, represents the bequest of exile passed through four generations of her female line, wandering the globe, looking for home.
