Terroir: Love, Out of Place

Unique and new application of popular viticulture term of "terroir" to the development of a person

Immigrant outsider perspective is very timely

Essays cover LGBTQ, race, class, national identity, (oppressive) theocratic influence, plight of East. Euro countries continual fight for sovereignty and identity, interracial marriage, bisexuality, Henry James, poetry, food and restaurant culture.

Travel; place; Switzerland, Baltimore, Washington DC, Salt Lake City, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Adriatic, Slovenia, Trieste and Venice

Readers include lovers of creative nonfiction, essays and memoir