Immersion

<b>Fans of the self-discovering journeys in Cheryl Strayed's <i>Wild</i> and Andrew McCarthy's <i>The Longest Way Home</i> will love diving into linguist Linda Murphy Marshall's adventure-filled international journey as she overcomes her past to find her place in the world--all over the world.</b> <p/><i>Immersion</i> is a memoir that takes the reader on a captivating emotional and physical journey through Linda Murphy Marshall's life: from the longstanding crippling impact of family members' low expectations and abuse to her discovery as a young adult that she possesses special skills in foreign languages. <p/>Linda is taught from an early age that she has little of value to offer the world. But her love of and affinity for languages enables her to create a new life--to separate herself from her toxic environment and to build a successful decades-long career as a professional multilinguist. It's a rewarding vocation but a challenging one: her assignments with the US federal government take her on some hair-raisingly dangerous journeys some to countries with unstable governments and even active war zones. But these sometimes-harrowing experiences teach her how to open the windows around her unearth her true self and develop a healthy sense of self-worth--and ultimately paradoxically her work and travel so far from home allow her to come home to herself.