{"id":2498,"date":"2015-09-30T13:32:30","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T10:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/?p=2498"},"modified":"2016-08-12T13:40:16","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T10:40:16","slug":"finding-ones-place-a-new-book-about-the-immigrant-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2015\/09\/30\/finding-ones-place-a-new-book-about-the-immigrant-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding One\u2019s Place:  A New Book About  the Immigrant  Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2499\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2016\/08\/cover-small-169x250.jpg\" alt=\"cover-small\" width=\"169\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2016\/08\/cover-small-169x250.jpg 169w, https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/files\/2016\/08\/cover-small.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 169px) 85vw, 169px\" \/>At the age of five, <strong>Tony Mankus<\/strong> along with his family was forced to leave Lithuania during World War II. The feeling and even pain of being exiled has never left him, neither in his young days spent in the DP camp in Germany, nor in old age living in the United States. \u201cWhere do I belong? Where is my place?\u201d are key questions that Mankus tries to answer in his book \u201cWhere Do I Belong To?: An Immigrant\u2019s Quest for Identity\u201d(2013). This frank and unsentimental story will be of a special interest to those readers who want to learn more about authentic experiences of immigrants.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Tony Mankus talks about his book on Youtube<\/strong>:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=51&amp;v=c9UoXSRYPyU\" target=\"_blank\"> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?t=51&amp;v=c9UoXSRYPyU<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Deimant\u0117 \u017dukauskien\u0117<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of five, Tony Mankus along with his family was forced to leave Lithuania during World War II. The feeling and even pain of being exiled has never left him, neither in his young days spent in the DP camp in Germany, nor in old age living in the United States. \u201cWhere do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/2015\/09\/30\/finding-ones-place-a-new-book-about-the-immigrant-experience\/\" class=\"more-link\">Toliau skaityti<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8222;Finding One\u2019s Place:  A New Book About  the Immigrant  Experience&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1581,1555],"tags":[1717,1713,1715],"class_list":["post-2498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-news","tag-deimante-zukauskiene","tag-tony-mankus","tag-where-do-i-belong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lnb.lt\/lituanistika\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}