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A review by curlypip
Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds by Ruth E. van Reken, David C. Pollock
1.0
I found this and incredibly tedious read, and was honestly pretty bored throughout, which, as someone who has lived in four countries and is raising mixed-race children outside of our passport country, is a shame, because I really wanted to like it. The authors seem to obsessed with fixing labels to people and their experiences, creating diagrams and charts that state the bloody obvious, describing them in such enthusiastic terms that you would think they’ve found the meaning of life. It’s academic study for the sake of it.
I also found it pretty negative, talking a lot about all the losses you experience as a TCK while glossing over the gains.
Unfortunately, the book can be summed up by a quote from Dave Pollock “I’m likely not going to tell you something you don’t know, but you just don’t know that you know it yet”. Otherwise known as writing a really long book about not very much at all.
If, by some miracle, you still want to read it, focus on the section on the transition experience itself, where there was some useful info (the only reason the book earned 1 star)
I also found it pretty negative, talking a lot about all the losses you experience as a TCK while glossing over the gains.
Unfortunately, the book can be summed up by a quote from Dave Pollock “I’m likely not going to tell you something you don’t know, but you just don’t know that you know it yet”. Otherwise known as writing a really long book about not very much at all.
If, by some miracle, you still want to read it, focus on the section on the transition experience itself, where there was some useful info (the only reason the book earned 1 star)